I was reading Ross Douthat this week and this observation struck me with some force, He wrote, “Policy innovation always creates losers as well as winners and earns adversaries as well as supporters. But policy innovation in an age of austerity tends to be politically perilous, because the . . . . Continue Reading »
On thanksgiving, just a few hours before black friday, i invite you to read a (longish) essay on gratitude, just published in the Policy Review. It has a section on the holiday of thanksgiving, and it previews, without exactly predicting, President Obama’s omission (according to news reports) . . . . Continue Reading »
Due to the holiday, we won’t have a new On the Square feature today. We’ll return with a new article (and blog posts) tomorrow. On behalf of the staff of First Things , we wish you all a safe and joyful Thanksgiving. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Christian Leadership Center at the University of Mary in North Dakota—-which is led by frequent On the Square contributor Leroy Huizenga—-is launching a new website on homiletics. An ecumenical endeavor involving Protestants and Catholics, it includes treatments of the Gospels, . . . . Continue Reading »
By the President of the United States of AmericaAProclamationThe season is nigh when, according to the time-hallowed custom of our people, the President appoints a day as the especial occasion for praise and thanksgiving to God. This Thanksgiving finds the people still bowed with sorrow for the . . . . Continue Reading »
Donald Berwick has resigned as the head of Medicare. From the Boston Globe story:Don Berwick, the Harvard professor who was tapped by the Obama administration to lead the overhaul of the massive Medicare and Medicaid programs, resigned today — just months before he was scheduled to leave . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I don’t think the immigration issue hurts Gingrich in sort of a complicated way. Gingrich voted for amnesty in 1986. Now he supports another kind of limited amnesty. He can talk all he wants about red cards and American-born grandkids, he is still going to be . . . . Continue Reading »
Many have observed that the Occupy Wall Street movement contains various strains, united perhaps only by a certain anger at those who are said to be profiting at “our” expense in these hard times. Nonetheless, a number of obvious themes emerge from observing the Occupiers in action and . . . . Continue Reading »
A new Kaiser Permanente study shows that HIV infection adds dramatically to the risk of getting cancer (in addition to AIDS). From the San Francisco Chronicle story:People with HIV infections have a higher risk of developing certain cancers than those who aren’t infected, and . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , George Weigel explains the need to downsize the Catholic Church in Ireland: Catholicism is in crisis all over Old Europe. Nowhere is that crisis more pronounced than in Ireland, where clerical corruption and disastrous episcopal leadership have collided with . . . . Continue Reading »
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