Keeping a Cool Head on Pope Francis' Environment Encyclical
Robert Royal, National Catholic Register
HHS Tightens Rules on Insurers Coverage of Contraception
Louise Radnofsky,Wall Street Journal
In Defense of Technology
Andrew O'Hagan, T Magazine
Ships
Tomaz Salamun, Poetry Magazine
Edward J. Larson, a Pepperdine professor of law and history and a Pulitzer Prize winner, fills in six missing years of Washington’s life as a private citizen, from the formal close of the Revolutionary War in 1783 to his inauguration as president in 1789. Continue Reading »
Two Sisters, Two Views of Gay Marriage
Elizabeth Corey and Mary Campbell, The Atlantic
What's the Point of a Professor?
Mark Bauerlein,The New York Times
Will Rome Hold Germany's Bishops to Account?
Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register
Byron's Letters and Journals
Benjamin Markovits, The Telegraph
There is, of course, something tiresome about those people who only ever order the same thing at restaurants. It can evidence a striking lack of originality and even a childish attachment to things that are known. Which makes all the more awkward my confession that I am one of those people who . . . . Continue Reading »
The media make a big deal of Pope Francis when this or that utterance seems to signal that the Great Capitulation is imminent. Liberals have long hoped for the moment when the Catholic Church stops being “anti-modern,” which doesn't mean engaged with science, philosophically sophisticated, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Marginality brings its advantages if the marginalized are prepared to capitalize upon them. Continue Reading »
Review: Arriving at Amen
Br. Patrick Mary Briscoe, O.P., Dominicana
Marriage is Not About Fancy Clothes and Nice Flowers, Says Pope
Catholic News Service
Spinster and the “State of the Female” Article
B. D. McClay, Fare Forward
Lessons Learned
Edward Short, The Weekly Standard
Oxford's Influential Inklings
Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski, The Chronicle Review
David Barton and the limits of mixing religion and politics. Continue Reading »
Rowan Williams: Can We Ever Be In Charge of Our Own Lives?
Rowan Williams, The New Statesman
Called to Greatness: Vocation and Dignity
Sherif Girgis, Ethika Politica
Smith's Transgender Delusion
Jonathan V. Last, The Weekly Standard
German Bishops to Allow Employees in Same-Sex Unions
Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register
Last week I read Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the kind of fun space romp that the Guardians of the Galaxy film tried to be without quite succeeding (the parodies of bureaucratic-speak and jokes about Guardian readers are enough to make a sad puppy smile). I also read King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou-choi, a very useful book on Hong Kong's Quixote, though I'm not persuaded that what he did is properly called “art.” I also reached the end of the Decameron and have started on it again, this time armed with notes.
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