If Vice Is Wrong, There Is An Afterlife?

Alexander Pruss, a philosophy professor at Baylor, often posts wonderful things like this on his own blog and the more medieval-minded Prosblogion : The following argument is valid, and is sound if we take the conditional in (2) to be material. 1.    (Premise) In despairing, one . . . . Continue Reading »

Understatement of the Day

Comes in a  New York Times   piece aimed are reviving the reputation of campus “sex weeks,” in which the writer acknowledge there has been “some opposition” to these events: Sex weeks have faced some opposition from colleges, alumni and students nearly everywhere . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 4.17.12

The Country with No Artists Alana Goodman, Commentary How Byzantine Was the Byzantine Tax Code? Brian A. Palmer, Slate Benedict XVI, “One Man Idea Factory” Michael Cook, Mercator.net The Persecution of China’s Last American Bishop Jillian Melchior, The Daily Remaking the . . . . Continue Reading »

Interview with R. R. Reno

R. R. Reno, editor of this very magazine, was interviewed by Glen Lewerenz of Relevant Radio on March 27, 2012. The discussion begins with Reno’s April “Public Square” piece, entitled “Relativism’s Moral Mission,” and branches out to related topics including . . . . Continue Reading »

The Shire and the City

Robert Royal has an article up at Catholic Thing in which he explores our ineradicable longing for intimate, small-scale communities and the major obstacles a postindustrial, interconnected world throws up against a realization of those ideals. Linking this dilemma to a larger dichotomy between . . . . Continue Reading »