The Final Gladness
by Peter LawlerIf you’re like me and couldn’t make it to Father Schall’s last lecture, you can watch it here . . . . . Continue Reading »
Dialogues on Ralphism (Or Where’s the Honor? Where’s the Shame?)
by Peter LawlerIt’s not that I’ve been ignoring the great posts by Pete and Ralph. I just haven’t had time to respond to them. But I have been emailing back and forth on them with various distinguished conservative experts. Of course I agree with Pete, and soon enough everyone else will too. . . . . Continue Reading »
Deterring, Not Preventing, Evil
by David T. KoyzisYesterday’s tragedy in Connecticut, like other similar tragedies before it, calls to mind a widespread and persistent tendency to assume that we can prevent every “avoidable” tragedy by passing yet another law. Sad to say, no law will effectively deter every possible crime in . . . . Continue Reading »
How Abortion Undermines the Rationale for Child Support
by Matthew SchmitzIn a review of Christine Overall’s Why Have Children? , Amy L. Wax challenges feminists who simultaneously insist on the mother’s right to choose and the father’s duty to provide : [Overall] argues that the biological father should be charged with full . . . . Continue Reading »
The New Hobbit
by David MillsA quick report for those interested. Our youngest really, really wanted to see The Hobbit , so we went last night on the spur on the moment when I went online and found, a little to my surprise, that tickets were still available for the mid-evening showing at the theatre nearest us. I am not . . . . Continue Reading »
The Republican Party Of The Forty-Seven Percent
by Pete SpiliakosThis is a pretty terrific article by Matt Lewis about the struggles of people at the lower end of the income distribution and how bad decisions in one’s teens and twenties cause more long-term harm for those whose families have the least. Lewis says: This is a topic that deserves the . . . . Continue Reading »
“My Jihad” is Perhaps Not What You Think
by Jennifer S. BrysonThis week a group of American Muslims has launched a campaign called “ My Jihad .” They are asking, “My Jihad Is . . . What’s Yours?” Their mission is “taking back Islam from Muslim and anti-Muslim extremists alike.” They are placing their ads on buses, starting . . . . Continue Reading »
On the Suffering of Innocents
by Matthew SchmitzFrom David Bentley Hart’s Tsunami and Theodicy : Famously, Dostoevsky supplied Ivan with true accounts of children tortured and murdered: Turks tearing babies from their mothers’ wombs, impaling infants on bayonets, firing pistols into their mouths; parents savagely flogging their . . . . Continue Reading »
Conservative Spokeswomen Don’t Wear Lipstick?
by Austin RuseAshley McGuire has an interesting piece up at the Public Discourse about how conservatives let progressives frame the social issues during the last campaign, which was absolutely true. It is clear now that Mitt Romney took Mitch Daniels disastrous advice and called a truce on social issues. McGuire . . . . Continue Reading »
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