B. D. McClay

Recently, fellow junior fellow Tristyn K. Bloom got into an argument on Twitter about eating dogs. She is pro-equality, as I understand it: we eat non-humans, dogs are not-human, therefore, it is not wrong to eat a dog. QED. Go forth ye and eat a dog. It’s a position many people . . . . Continue Reading »

Pretty quiet day today, but here’s what we have. At Postmodern Conservative , PETER LAWLER still thinks the government shutdown is dumb , in a blog post that is sadly CAPS -less. Over at Peter Leithart’s blog, Leithart is writing about Byron , the Bible , and book biographies . Finally, . . . . Continue Reading »

We’ve decided to experiment with extending our reposting of On the Square pieces to reposting items from our hosted blogs. Usually this should only include posts from that day; today, however, I’ll also highlight some pieces from a few days ago. Let’s start: Over at Postmodern . . . . Continue Reading »

John D. Carlson talks about just war in today’s On the Square ; a just war, he argues, is not separate from the idea of punishment: The United States and many other nations have forgotten if not deliberately abandoned the idea of using military force to punish—just as Americans and many . . . . Continue Reading »

Calvinists get a bad rap, but how many of the critics really understand him? James R. Rogers points out how few of us read the Institutes or bother to think seriously about Calvin in today’s On the Square . Instead, we rely on easy stereotypes: Some of the answer certainly derives from . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s On the Square , James D. Conley is also interested in moral courage: Increasingly, Catholics are told that if they cannot conform to secular morality, they should leave the secular sphere. That Catholic hospitals must compromise, or be exiled. But we cannot abandon our flocks. Like . . . . Continue Reading »

Watch a film with William Doino in today’s On the Square , where he talks about Serpico and doing the right thing: Most of us will never be in a situation anywhere near as perilous as Serpico was, and yet most of us have likely witnessed wrongdoing of some kind, and tried—or been . . . . Continue Reading »

The Church of Our Saviour has stopped offering the Tridentine Mass. Nicholas Frankovich comments on its passing in today’s On the Square : Mass according to the 1962 missal demands a knowledge of the Latin texts and of some fairly intricate rubrics. It requires training that most priests now . . . . Continue Reading »

Russell E. Saltzman dreams of Nixon (with the light brown hair), in today’s On the Square . They attended the Erasmus lecture together: The dinner matched the luncheon sandwich buffet served to the Erasmus symposium group the next day, including that marvelous squash soup. I had two bowls of . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s On the Square , George Weigel is still making the rounds in Eastern Europe. He considers a memorial to the fallen in Lithuania, the Hill of Crosses, and the greater battle for freedom (and faith) that memorial has come to symbolize: That struggle was led by some remarkable men and . . . . Continue Reading »