David Mills

“Political leaders do not want to give a speech, cut a ribbon, or pose for photographs at the opening of a casino,” David Blankenhorn points out in a new and damning study ,  New York’s Promise: Why Sponsoring Casinos Is a Regressive Policy Unworthy of a . . . . Continue Reading »

From  Town & Village , a neighborhood newspaper here, in a story about the New York Theatre Ballet: The company, which has reparatory seasons and revivals of long-lost chamber masterpieces, is also well known for its hour-long adaptations for children. Through both the training at the . . . . Continue Reading »

A couple of days ago, in Francis Excommunicates Dissident, Not Man Sullivan Thought , I mentioned Andrew Sullivan’s misreading of Pope Francis — typical of such efforts, which would once have been called “jesuitical” — which his (Francis’) excommunicating a . . . . Continue Reading »

In  Tu Belleza, Tu Misericordia , Maureen Mullarkey writes of the first Latin American winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, Gabriela Mistral. For readers interested in Mistral, there is an active foundation dedicated to her work, whose website includes (in Spanish) a great deal of . . . . Continue Reading »

Andrew Sullivan , not surprisingly, joined the stampede of those who found in the famous interview with the pope a Francis who doesn’t actually exist, complete with readings of his predecessors that missed the point of what they’d said. It’s the old story of dissident . . . . Continue Reading »

The Pentecostal theologian Dale Coulter continues his analysis of the intellectual, and anti-intellectual, heritage of American Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, described in Mark Noll Got It Wrong, Maybe . He is not happy with Mark Noll’s take on these things, which he argues wrongly . . . . Continue Reading »

For those of you who like such things, an interesting and helpful list: A catalogue of the works that shape the Jewish mind in America today from  The Tablet . The choices express “the collective inheritance of the Jewish people as read by Jews like us in . . . . Continue Reading »

The major media has, as per usual, made a mess of its coverage of Pope Francis’ now famous or infamous interview, published in this country in the Jesuit weekly America with the title A Big Heart Open to God . A mess, at least, from the point of view of anyone who reads the interview and . . . . Continue Reading »

Mark Noll went with the flow and got it wrong, says Dale Coulter. Writing on Renewal Dynamics , the weblog of the faculty of Regent University Divinity School, he describes the development of the idea that middle American Christians were anti-intellectual, beginning with Richard Hofstadter’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Offered as a celebration of C. S. Lewis’ work on the fiftieth anniversary of his death, C. S. Lewis: In Memoriam promises to be a very good conference. Sponsored by the New York C. S. Lewis Society and the new Sheen Center , it features Lewis biographer William Griffin, French Lewis . . . . Continue Reading »