Ivan the K vs. Bloomberg’s Full-Employment Plan for Maternal Teats
by Peter LawlerHERE. What will be next on the schoolmarmish health-and-safety front? . . . . Continue Reading »
First Links — 8.7.12
by Matthew CantirinoWhen Calvin and Qutb Went Smashing Philip Jenkins, RealClearReligion Conservatives and the State Francis Fukuyama, The American Interest In Defense of Apologetics Tim Keller, The Gospel Coalition The Death-Haunted Art of Friendship Eve Tushnet, Catholic Lane Porky Populism Rod Dreher, The . . . . Continue Reading »
The Final Four?
by Pete SpiliakosSo I was watching the 6:00 PM Fox News show. It is a pretty good straight news program. They focused on Tim Pawlenty, Rob Portman, Paul Ryan, and Marco Rubio as the four who are being looked at the hardest to be Romney’s running mate. The Weekly Standard came out . . . . Continue Reading »
Introducing Katie Infantine
by Matthew CantirinoWe’d like to introduce readers to our second Junior Fellow for the 2012-2013 year, Katherine Infantine, who officially joined the First Things editorial staff at the beginning of August. A brief bio: Katie Infantine graduated in 2010 with honors from Gonzaga University where she served . . . . Continue Reading »
Conservative Thoughts on Liberal Education and the Election
by Peter LawlerThese only make sense in the context of the gen ed reform going on at Berry right now. As the comments suggest, I now join Carl in thinking of TRUE GRIT as laying claim to be the great American novel—written from a southern and female point of view. The two proper Confederate common men in . . . . Continue Reading »
The “Sub Human Temptation”
by Wesley J. SmithWonder of wonder, miracle of miracles—a pro human exceptionalism opinion piece in the New York Times blog—the newspaper in which we have previously been told that plants are ethical and peas are persons—and by a philosophy professor, no less! From “Anything But . . . . Continue Reading »
Drone Use Is (or at least can be) Moral
by Matthew SchmitzRecently, Robert P. George offered on these pages a much needed warning against the indiscriminate drone use that that has become characteristic of U.S. foreign policy. Yet what are Christians and others who believe in aboslute moral norms to make of the morality of drone use itself? Writing in the . . . . Continue Reading »
On the Square Today
by The EditorsR.R. Reno on the neo-bourgeois project : Over the last fifty or so years, our common culture has decayed. Inane reality TV has replaced anodyne shows like “Leave it to Beaver.” Sex, profanity, and violence course through fiber-optic wires. Pornography dominates the internet. All of this . . . . Continue Reading »
Rilke’s Defense of Catholic Corruption
by Matthew SchmitzOur own Micah Mattix has a piece in the Wall Street Journal reviewing Rainier Marie Rilke’s newly translated, Letters on God and Letters to a Young Woman . One notable tidbit Mattix draws out is Rilke’s defense of corrupt clerics over against pious reformers: For Rilke, . . . . Continue Reading »
Bisexual, Latino, Lesbian-raised Intellectual Defends Mark Regnerus
by Matthew SchmitzRobert Oscar Lopez , a bisexual, Latino, lesbian-raised intellectual goes after critics of Mark Regnerus’s gay parenting study: The problem with Sherkat’s disqualification of Regnerus’s work is a manifold chicken-and-egg conundrum. Though Sherkat uses the term “LGBT” in . . . . Continue Reading »
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