Can Faith Survive in the First World?
David G. Bonagura, Jr., The Catholic Thing
Truly Higher Education
Peter Augustine Lawler, National Affairs
Literature and Money
Dora Zhang, The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Mystery of Extraordinarily Accurate Medieval Maps
Julie Rehmeyer, Discover
Randy Boyagoda’s biography of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square came out last month and has already received significant notice. (See reviews and notices here and here and here and here) A few weeks ago, Boyagoda himself . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing entitled “Examining Workplace Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Americans” (you can watch the first panel here). Its purpose was to discuss the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would extend Federal anti-discrimination coverage to the categories of “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Continue Reading »
What the Hell is the Purpose of Hell?
Candida Moss, The Daily Beast
Culture's Champion
Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Weekly Standard
Don't Know Much About History
Aaron MacLean, Free Beacon
Reading Dostoevsky
Jennifer Reeser, The National Review
Faith and Suicide
Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing
Ancients on Oldies
Richard Ingrams, The Spectator
In Defense of Difficulty
Steve Wasserman, The American Conservative
A Review of Rowan Ricardo Phillips's “Heaven”
John Poch, 32 Poems
Scientific-Sounding Excuses for Promiscuity
David Mills, Aleteia
The Case for Old Ideas
Ross Douthat, The New York Times
The 20 Photographs of the Week
Greg Whitmore, The Guardian
Factory Town
Austin Smith, The Poetry Foundation
The New Republic posted a little forum yesterday under the title “Do Humans Still Need to Study the Humanities?” The editors asked four former presidents of major institutions to answer the question. All of them state their commitment to humanities instruction and their regret that the fields have become marginal in recent years. Continue Reading »
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is in the midst of a bare-knuckle battle over whether Catholic schools can require Catholic teachers to be . . . well . . . Catholic. Recently, anonymous parties hired Sam Singer—a high-billing Better-Call-Saul-style PR man renowned for . . . . Continue Reading »
Dante: A Very Short Introduction
Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
On Synod, Archbishop Kurtz Calls for Unity Between Catholic Beliefs and Pastoral Practice
Joan Desmond, National Catholic Register
Bible Study
Tony Hoagland, The Poetry Foundation
John Paul II firmly believed that we need fear only thoughtlessness and lack of courage. Just as Czechs and Slovaks maintained patience in the face of tyranny for four decades, we ourselves have reason to expect that current trends, however disheartening in the short term, will not endure forever. Continue Reading »
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