Rick Garnett at Mirror of Justice has chosen the right word to describe Adam Gopnik’s comments on abortion: confused. What is striking (and mildly amusing) is that those comments are so poorly informed and intellectually unsophisticated. Now, I’m guessing here, but I suspect that . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend, writer, and advisory council member Timothy George is representing the world’s Baptists at the Synod of Bishops now meeting for two weeks in Rome. The title of the Synod is the New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith, and Timothy was invited for obvious . . . . Continue Reading »
Scholars we pomocons like, such as Charles Kesler and Jeremy Rabkin, review Obama’s overall pattern of consulting the Constitution when considering action. And the overall pattern is by now clear: He doesn’t. H/T Instapundit. P.S. Anyone read much of the new Kesler book yet? . . . . Continue Reading »
Br. Thomas More Garrett, writing at Dominicana , points out an irony in the new California statute proscribing the use of “reparative therapy” by anyone under the age of eighteen: The legislation is sweeping in effect. What if an individual under the age of eighteen . . . . Continue Reading »
Have any of you seen the Eric Rohmer film 4 Aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle? It’s sort of a retelling of the “Country Mouse, City Mouse” story. Two young women, one from the country, one from the city, are thrown together and become friends. They represent a certain sophistication . . . . Continue Reading »
R.R. Reno on the embarrassment of the Catholic Left : There they go again. The usual gang of Catholic theology professors has signed a manifesto, “On all of our shoulders: A Catholic Call to Protect the Endangered Common Good.” It claims to warn us of the grave danger posed by Congressman . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend Mark Barrett sends the link to Goodbye to Glocamorra , 1968 documentary from Irish television on the Irish neighborhood of Inwood, on the north end of Manhattan. (Mark has the rare pleasure of seeing his father as a young man. He appears about nine minutes in, riding around the . . . . Continue Reading »
Is “Whom” History? The Economist Mark Noll & George Marsden on America’s Religious Heritage Justin Taylor, Between Two Worlds Gospel and Culture After Vatican II Tracey Rowland, ABC Religion & Ethics Suing over Circumcision—in New York Seth Berkman, Jewish Daily . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week’s post about WEIRD values (that’s “Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic”) drew a number of comments. Readers focused on the implications for the West’s relations with the Muslim world. It’s worth pointing out, though, that the clash is not . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at CLR Forum , Notre Dame’s Kristine Kalanges is having a discussion with me and my colleague Marc DeGirolami about Radical Orthodoxy, an intellectual movement that originated in 1990s Britain, and its implications for political theory. Kristine argues that Radical Orthodoxy can provide . . . . Continue Reading »
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