Slate.com asked several authors, critics, and editors to confess their least favorite “must read” book . The selections aren’t all that surprising ( Ulysses and The Catcher in the Rye are named twice; Gravity’s Rainbow three times), but I appreciated this insight by novelist . . . . Continue Reading »
An attempt to create a right to medical and non medical assisted suicide–in reality, all assisted suicides are non medical regardless of a doctor’s participation–has been thrown out of court. . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , Russell E. Saltzman says that America’s politics is a mix of partisanship and pragmatism: Based on my own political experience in the 1970s, I related I did not in all my time in politics know any politician prepared to live or die by the rigidities of an . . . . Continue Reading »
The Princeton Review recently announced its annual survey of colleges with the most and least religious college students. The lists are based on a 122,000-student survey from 376 colleges: Top 5 Colleges for “Most Religious Students” 1- Brigham Young University (Provo UT) 2 -Hillsdale . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a very fine essay criticizing the Coen Brother’s film for omitting so much from the original Charles Portis book and adding so much also. It’s the essay our Robert Cheeks wanted to read back in January, when we pomocons went nuts over the film in several threads, and it . . . . Continue Reading »
Years ago, I lived near a church that was one of six scattered along the New England coast whose pastors and members believed themselves all ( all ) that was left of the Church in the world. One of my housemates started going to this church, though he never joined, and after a few months dragooned . . . . Continue Reading »
One of today’s On the Square pieces features remarks by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput from a session on religious freedom at World Youth Day in Madrid. In her World Youth Day diary entry for today, Anna Halpine describes the young attendees’ enthusiastic response to the call to . . . . Continue Reading »
Several weeks ago I had the pleasure of viewing a newly-restored edition of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis , a masterpiece of film by most critics’ accounts, in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. This silent work from 1927 contains a number of observations and prophecies about the tendencies of . . . . Continue Reading »
God and country music: Despite all the drinking and cheating, genre comfortable with religious themes Deseret News , Rhett Wilkinson The Failure of Liberal Bioethics New York Times , Ross Douthat Survey: Most Catholics unaware of Mass revisions OSV Newsweekly , Melissa A. Cidade Report: . . . . Continue Reading »
This part is on the aristocratic characer of Eugenia . . . . . Continue Reading »
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