Today is National Sign an Advance Directive Day, or something like that. And the stories are out trying to stimulate us to action. As I have noticed when proposals to legalize assisted suicide are reported, they are all the same. It’s cookie cutter journalism: Start with a horror . . . . Continue Reading »
R. J. Snell, writing for Public Discourse , tries to answer the question of whether natural law is persuasive to anyone not already convinced: First, natural lawyers needn’t convince or persuade anyone, for in an important way natural law cannot be proven—law is the condition . . . . Continue Reading »
Professor Patrick Deneen has posted the text of one of his recent lectures to his blog, What I Saw in America . In his remarks, delivered to the University of Texas at Austin (originally under the title “Against Great Books,” later softened to “Why Great . . . . Continue Reading »
Death by Treacle Pamela Haag, The American Scholar In an Apocalyptic Daze Pascal Bruckner, City Journal Social Issues Sink to the Bottom Pew Research Center The 20-Year Nostalgia Cycle Forrest Wickham, Browbeat Heroic Catholicism, Not Casual Catholicism Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, . . . . Continue Reading »
So I was listening to the 1:00 PM NPR show and the host said that he had a source in the Obama White House who told him that they expect to lose a 5-4 ruling (presumably that means at least the striking down of the individual mandate), but that they expect to use the ruling to rally the public to . . . . Continue Reading »
Amid reports of a possible rapprochement between the Society of St. Pius X, an “ultratraditionalist” group in the genuine, non-propagandistic sense of that term, and the Vatican, comes a letter from an SSPX branch in the United States rebuffing invocations of religious liberty in the . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THOUGHTS HERE . And America’s leading theologian, Marc Guerra, will be speaking at Berry College on Thursday at 5 in Evans Auditorium. There will be a variety of distinguished respondents. Contact ME for further information. . . . . Continue Reading »
This morning, my wife was recounting a conversation she’d had with another parent at a local homeschooling co-op where she teaches and our children take classes. Her friend—speaking parent to parent, not parent to teacher—stated quite emphatically that we parents are . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on Ross Douthat’s new book, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics : Douthat’s book is a neatly laid-out dissertation on the people of faith and their place in American society. It is a deft chronicle of where faith communities went right—spanning a . . . . Continue Reading »
The Pulitzer granted to Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve caused me to revisit R.R. Reno’s prescient First Things review , which suggests the book offers “a justifying mythology for America’s ruling elite.” The Swerve [blusters] again and again about the beauty-loathing, . . . . Continue Reading »
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