David Mills

Something that may be of interest to writers: In his essay Romanticism and Classicism (1911), two very slippery terms, the English poet and critic T. E. Hulme wrote The best way of gliding into a proper definition of my terms would be to start with a set of people who are prepared to fight about . . . . Continue Reading »

In a post yesterday, Eve Tushnet quotes a Christianity Today writer named Marlena Graves , who wonders “about all the godly men who may have other spiritual gifts—just not the ones traditionally considered ‘male’ spiritual gifts. For example, what about men who have the gift . . . . Continue Reading »

What a Veteran Knows , the moving “On the Square” reflection by our webmaster Joe Carter, has been selected by Leon and Amy Kass for the Veterans Day entry in their American Calendar . It is an honor to be selected by the discerning Kasses and Joe’s essay appears with selections . . . . Continue Reading »

• “Look for a building with a cross on it,” people escaping North Korea for China are told, because Christians are more likely than anyone else to help them escape the Chinese police. The police, reports Melanie Kirkpatrick, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, will send them back to the . . . . Continue Reading »

Some of you will have seen this, but I send it along since some of you haven’t (I hadn’t, as far as I remember, but then one’s mind blanks out such things). Your submissions make Baby Jesus cry offers fifty examples of failed attempts at ecclesiastical art. Many of them make me . . . . Continue Reading »

Much to be commended was this year’s conference of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists . It was the society’s twentieth, and held at the Kellenberg Memorial High School on Long Island, an impressive institution itself. The conference offered several plenary addresses, including . . . . Continue Reading »

Today’s unexpected story: from  Metro , a thin tabloid distributed at the subway during morning rush hour, comes Jets’ Tebow Gets Support from “Jews for Tebow” . The group has 4,000 members, who according to a founder quoted in the story tend to like Tebow more for his . . . . Continue Reading »

Last week I mentioned that our friend and advisory board member Timothy George had gone to Rome at the pope’s invitation as a fraternal delegate to the  general assembly of the Synod of Bishops. Timothy is, as readers may know, a Southern Baptist, and was there representing the Baptist . . . . Continue Reading »

A friend who follows the Episcopal Church — which at this point is somewhat like watching the Titanic when it’s already a few thousand feet under water — sends the link to a story on that body’s establishment declaring that the Episcopal bishop of South Carolina has abandoned . . . . Continue Reading »

For those of you in the New York area: Tomorrow night Nicholas Eberstadt will be arguing with William Galston about whether entitlements corrupt those they intend to sustain or a necessary, civic responsibility that support us all. The debate continues the debate begin in Eberstadt’s . . . . Continue Reading »