B. D. McClay

Hello, good ROFTers! We have no new On the Square posts for you today, but there’s a lot of new content over at our other blogs from this weekend and today, so here’s a roundup of things you may have missed. Over at Postmodern Conservative , Peter Lawler is a skunk , while James Cesar . . . . Continue Reading »

In your other Labor Day On the Square , Sandra Laguerta takes the LCWR to task for their “confused ecclesiology” and “unsettling misunderstanding” of Catholic teaching: There is noting unsatisfying about the council documents’ description of the laity, religious, and . . . . Continue Reading »

It may be Labor Day, but we still have two On the Square posts for you! Here’s William Doino Jr. on Marty Glickman, one of two Jewish runners who were not allowed to participate in the 1936 Olympics: The morning of the Olympic trials, as Marty prepared to help secure a spot for his relay team . . . . Continue Reading »

“Families exist to die,” says Peter J. Leithart, cheerfully pondering the departure of his children in today’s On the Square . As every nineteenth-century Russian novelist knew, the surface cracks and the old chasms reappear. Fathers become traditionalists who think that their way . . . . Continue Reading »

Adam Gopnik, in the New Yorker, has written a column entitled ” Why Study English? ” But, in today’s On the Square , Micah Mattix points out that the question he is really concerned with is “why read literature?” Studying English is a very different beast: One of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Russell E. Saltzman, a very brave man, offers a defense of Joseph Bottum in today’s On the Square : In a way, Bottum doesn’t go far enough for me. I think we should give up more than a sliver. The vestiges of Christendom and America’s Protestant establishment are languishing, and . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s On the Square , Travis LaCouter makes the case for why conservatives need to get on to websites like Buzzfeed and start making lists: There are signs to suggest that Buzzfeed’s readers are yearning for something more than the shallow nihilism and bald secularism currently on . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s On the Square , George Weigel discusses a modern innovation in the Stations of the Cross that is not only not terrible, but actually very moving: Outside the church, the priests and people of Pasierbiec have done something quite remarkable, however: they’ve recently . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s On the Square , Ashley Thorne considers the wisdom in giving children child-sized versions of great books; it not only introduces them to great literature early in life, but gives them the ability to read and appreciate it once they are no longer children: When I was assigned [ . . . . Continue Reading »

One of our new junior fellows, J. David Nolan, considers the internet in his piece for today’s On the Square : My fear is that the unstructured nature of many online browsing patterns runs counter to any sort of discipline, spiritual or otherwise. The Internet exploits—delightfully and . . . . Continue Reading »