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December 2014

December 17, 2014
Several respondents to last week’s column for Aleteia, “Free-Market Catholics Are Losing Their Faith (in Capitalism),” rejected my...
December 16, 2014
When Greisa Torres moved from Cuba to Miami four years ago,  she "says she lost her...
December 15, 2014
Americans, writes Brandon McGinley in The danger of taking for granted that America is a just...
December 15, 2014
On the same subject as my Single and Catholic, but with more direct knowledge and more sardonically put,...
December 15, 2014
In the "quest to redefine our identity, in the struggle between our boundless aspirations and...
December 13, 2014
Related to my Free-Market Catholics Are Losing Their Faith (in Capitalism), which describes one answer, the...
December 12, 2014
In Here’s What $184K In Campaign Contributions Gets Comcast, Consumerist describes the letter our senators Pat...
December 12, 2014
Two articles on journalism today. From Forward, Neal Pollack's Welcome to The New Republic — Taylor Swift's Been...
December 12, 2014
"[H]ooding, stress positions, white noise, sleep deprivation and deprivation of food and water . . . combined...
December 11, 2014
Reading social movements is hard, since the evidence is diverse and can be read in...
December 11, 2014
An @woofboy responding to a friend's Twitter comment pointed us both to this editorial from Theology...
December 10, 2014
A fascinating essay by Michael Toscano on the Japanese director Isao Takahata, whose latest and last...
December 10, 2014
If I read the signs aright, many politically conservative Christians, Catholics and Evangelicals both, are...
December 10, 2014
We could see his sister in the next room, standing up straight, alert, obviously happy...
December 08, 2014
“Yeah, right” is the way the more irenic of my Evangelical friends react to the...
December 08, 2014
Among all the many good meditations on the Immaculate Conception being offered this day, may...
December 06, 2014
The English journalist Jon Ronson, best known here as the author whose The Men Who...
December 06, 2014
From our son in New York: "A little kid on the train today just told his mom...
December 05, 2014
“I had an African American pastor talk to me about working though his son’s applications...
December 05, 2014
Of current relevance, if I say so myself: My Jeremiah and the Enlightened Racist, published...
December 04, 2014
A friend commenting on an article I'd commended — Rebecca Hamilton's The Murder of Innocents is...
December 03, 2014
Many conservative websites and writers, significant, sane ones, have become more and more critical of the...
December 03, 2014
Writers with some authority frequently say more than they can really say, and it's a...
December 03, 2014
"You have to wade through a lot of postmodernist/Marxist jargon in the Australian journalist Guy...
December 03, 2014
The same website that listed Patrick Deneen's twelve books to read on Christianity and politics...
December 02, 2014
On the almost always interesting Reformation 21, philosopher Bruce Baugus relays a lesson from Philip...
December 02, 2014
Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue, of course. Two of Christopher Lasch's books, predictable. Alexis de Toqueville's Democracy in...
December 02, 2014
A useful story, from James Boswell's Life of Johnson (available in various forms here): Boswell: I...

November 2014

November 30, 2014
The responses to the Rolling Stone expose of the University of Virginia's sexual responses all say...
November 30, 2014
Jessica Valenti is the Guardian's columnist for bog-standard feminism. She recently tweeted: Embarrassed @agolis by booing...
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