Sometimes my college freshmen tell me that they use a thesaurus to find synonyms, so that they don’t have to use the same word all the time. Using the same word, they’ve been told, is repetitive, and repetition is bad. Well, that’s complete nonsense. I’ll turn to repetition in . . . . Continue Reading »
reports: China’s “Little Emperors” — the generations of only-children born under the government’s rigid “one child” policy — are living up to their name. A study published Thursday in the journal Science has found that compared with two groups of people . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday I wrote that a politics of raising taxes on lower earners and cutting taxes on higher earners was, in the minds of many of its supporters, a politics of solidarity. Low earners have a responsibility to show more solidarity with the job creating high earners by paying more taxes and . . . . Continue Reading »
Shortly before his death, Richard John Neuhaus, speaking at the annual convention of the National Right to Life Committee, delivered what I believe to be the greatest pro-life speech ever given. It will inspire the pro-life faithful of all traditions and stations until the field is . . . . Continue Reading »
In February we’ll be opening applications for next year’s junior fellowships, with an official announcement going up on our site on February 1. But it’s not too early to think of students and recent graduates who might benefit from the program. The fellowship lasts a year, from . . . . Continue Reading »
Theologians who may have missed their latest copy of the Economist should (not) rush to check out this muddle of the Christian doctrine of hell, which runs together works of fiction, speculation, and actual dogma, folklore with official teaching, and different denominations of Christianity and . . . . Continue Reading »
Daniel Silliman ponders on his blog whether charity could entirely replace the welfare state, as some conservatives desire: Could private charities move beyond assistance, beyond helping at the points where the system of government assistance is breaking down, replacing government with . . . . Continue Reading »
I do coins. One of my parishioners some years before her death gave me the coins her husband acquired on his many European travels. I just today got around to researching one of them. It’s from the Isle of Brechqa (also spelled Brecqhou), a small, small part of the English Channel Islands . . . . Continue Reading »
“I’ll be what they see,” says Amanda. “They see me through eyes of love. I’d do anything for them, even this.” The “they” she is referring to is her daughters. The “this” she means is ” telling my girls that I think I’m . . . . Continue Reading »
Ross Douthat responds to David Bentley Hart’s essay on Jung: I agree with parts of this diagnosis, but I think it’s slightly incomplete, because I think that much of modern Gnosticism is less disenchanted and post-metaphysical than Hart implies. Having spent a fair amount of time reading . . . . Continue Reading »
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