Edward Alfred Goerner was longtime professor of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and I was privileged to have him as my PhD supervisor more than 25 years ago.The first thing one noticed about Goerner was his flair for the dramatic in both mannerism and dress. He . . . . Continue Reading »
Wesley J. Smith on whether Muslim doctors should be able to refuse to treat the opposite sex : With the Muslim population increasing in Western Europe and the United States, that faith’s strict religious requirement to maintain modesty between the sexes has prompted some Muslim medical . . . . Continue Reading »
But a love for tradition is not nostalgia. I’ve been teaching Flannery O’Connor in an online course, The Catholic Imagination , and in her gruesome story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” the characters of the grandmother, Red Sammy, and the Misfit indulge in nostalgia, the . . . . Continue Reading »
A note from a friend led me to an article by the late Eugene Genovese, published in Dissent in 1994 and famous in leftist circles (judging from some of the articles published after his death) if forgotten by nearly everyone else. Described by the editors as “an open letter to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Is the Catholic Church showing a sincere and admirable respect for the free will of individuals and encouraging personal responsibility or is she unnecessarily turning away her members who suffer a great degree of doubt about certain Church teachings? Steve Shiffrin’s article at Mirror of . . . . Continue Reading »
If you go to the big debate thread below, you’ll see that I offer a couple theories for why Obama did so poorly. You’ll also see that Kate has one I find worthy of further consideration. But whatever collection of explanations we adopt, Jonathan S. Tobin at Commentary offers one that . . . . Continue Reading »
While the country digests Governor Romney’s unexpectedly good showing at Wednesday’s presidential debate, Roger Clegg at National Review calls us back to higher things . This week the CDC released its 2011 report on births in the United States and the numbers paint an ugly picture . . . . Continue Reading »
Jacques Maritain and the Failure of American Pluralism Thaddeus Kozinski, Ethika Politica Life After TED April Dembosky, Financial Times History as Narcissism James Bowman, Arma Virumque On St. Francis of Assisi Fr. George W. Rutler, Church of Our Saviour The Lasting Legacy of Cardinal Jean . . . . Continue Reading »
This sampling of the Lee Greenwood classic country tune IS what many a supporter of Romney felt yesterday in Floyd County, GA. Lots of people—random people in town, students, and the very few faculty who intend to vote Romney—came up to me just to ask “Did you SEE the . . . . Continue Reading »
So I just finished watching the first 65 minutes or so of the debate, and here are my thoughts, 1. This was the character Romney should have been playing all along - Romney at his best is a less affable and empathic (but more personally decent) Bill Clinton. A big part of Clinton’s appeal is . . . . Continue Reading »
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