In her latest On the Square column , Elizabeth Scalia considers the riots in England and notes that what is a daily reality in Britain will soon be America’s reality, too: It’s not like we cannot see this for ourselves. As we view security videos of “flash mobs”—unconcerned . . . . Continue Reading »
Bryan Berrey has discovered excerpts from Thomas Aquinas’s childhood journal: (Age 4) Article XXXI: Whether I stole Laurie’s apple juice during nap time? Objection I: It would seem that I stole Laurie’s apple juice during nap time. For it was said: “Thomas, go sit in the corner. And say . . . . Continue Reading »
Nation of Faith, Nation of Immigrants Public Discourse , Charles J. Chaput Divorce reform could save billions in government aid Washington Times , Cheryl Wetzstein Federal study explores childbearing by era Washington Times , Cheryl Wetzstein As Opera Struggles in West, an Art Form Flourishes in . . . . Continue Reading »
I know this is celebrity junk, but there is a kernel of importance here. Zsa Zsa Gabor is experiencing a difficult time with the kind of severe health problems and other vicissitudes of old age that one might expect in a woman of 94 years. But her (creep) husband has told CNN he wants . . . . Continue Reading »
Bishop Jean Laffitte, secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family, warned in a recent interview against emphasizing only the sexual dimension of Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body when deployed as a catechetical resource. The problem, Laffitte explained, is that an exclusive focus . . . . Continue Reading »
Sunday’s New York Times ran an op ed by Warren Buffet, ” Stop Coddling the Super-Rich ,” in which The Oracle of Omaha chided our legislators for failing to tax the rich at sufficiently high rates. He points out that he paid nearly than $7,000,000 in taxes last year. Sounds like a . . . . Continue Reading »
New Criterion art critic James Panero has curated what looks to be an interesting exhibition of portraits of injured U.S. service personnel. Too often artists use military injuries or deaths as mere fodder for the next piece of political art. That’s not the case here . The exhibit will run . . . . Continue Reading »
For his column this week, David Mills considers why Protestants tend to disregard the Assumption : The Assumption of Mary is a difficult matter, from the Protestant point of view, because the traces and hints in Scripture are not easily found, unless you assume that they are there to be found, . . . . Continue Reading »
One reader responds to my “On the Square” column for today, A Great and Glorious, but Debated, Assumption , with the old Bultmannian criticism about the alleged incompatibility of the Ascension (against which it’s usually made), which he extends to the Assumption, with . . . . Continue Reading »
A professor of the “politics and philosophy of food,” named Chad Levin, advocates for vegetarianism in a distinctly political advocacy paper in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Ironically, given what he writes, he claims that his vegetarianism is not . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
