David Mills

On the anniversary of the birth of the great film-maker Robert Bresson, our friend Shmuel Ben-Gad sends the link to an interview with the director . It’s in French, but subtitled. Bresson directed  Diary of a Country Priest and  The Trial of Joan of Arc among other films. Here is a . . . . Continue Reading »

There’s probably a bit of wishful thinking in John Dickerson’s  The Coming War Within the Republican Party , arguing that a lot of major conservative voices are already assuming Romney will lose the election, as shown by their jumping in to be the first ones to explain why and . . . . Continue Reading »

Four Anglican bishops serving in northeastern Africa and Cyprus have written the United Nations asking that “an international declaration be negotiated that outlaws the intentional and deliberate insulting or defamation of persons (such as prophets), symbols, texts and constructs of belief . . . . Continue Reading »

My friend Mark Barrett sent the link to Finding Their Way Back , an interesting report on baseball guru Bill James and the Boston Red Sox. If the writer is right about James, he seems to be a class act. The article will be of most interest to the baseball fans among you, and in particular for Red . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friend Samuel Levine and the Touro Law Center’s Jewish Law Institute (which he directs) is offering its Fall 2012 Distinguished Lecture, “A Comparative Look at Jewish Law and Civil Procedure,” given by Rabbi Yona Reiss. An experienced attorney, Rabbi Reiss is dean of the . . . . Continue Reading »

A heads up: The Society of Catholic Social Scientists will be holding its twentieth annual convention on Friday and Saturday October 26th and 27th, in Uniondale, a community on the western end of Long Island. Among the speakers are our friend and advisory council member Robert P. George, the . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers in the New York area may want to know about two major lectures being offered by St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, the first coming up in just three weeks. At 7:30 on the evening of Friday, September 21st, Father John Behr will deliver the seminary’s annual Florovsky . . . . Continue Reading »

The website address is amusing, in a childish sort of way, but readers may enjoy for the article itself I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar from the  Harvard Business Review site. “Yes, language is constantly changing,” he writes, but that doesn’t make grammar . . . . Continue Reading »

From ” A Final Warning That the Pope Ignores at His Peril ,” a “cliches r us” leading article (or editorial) in the English newspaper  The Independent attacking the “authoritarian,” “hardline,” thought-suppressing Pope Benedict and praising the . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friend and former colleague David Goldman reviews the new book by the Israeli scholar Horam Yazony and has his doubts. He writes in Judaism’s Central Sacrifice that Yoram Hazony has sought a bridge between secular nationalism and Jewish religion. His latest [book]  The Philosophy of . . . . Continue Reading »