David Mills

A good day for devoted readers of Hadley Arkes’ work and for anyone concerned with the natural law and its expression in American public life. The Claremont Institute has launched Right Reason , a “journal dedicated to the application of natural law reasoning to past and current court . . . . Continue Reading »

A friend writes in response to my exegesis of the Ash Wednesday liturgy, The Dust of Adam , which I should have posted but forgot: “It was a good supplement to the decidedly less bracing version of the rite I received last night: ‘Repent and be faithful to the gospel’.” . . . . Continue Reading »

“This is July 16, 1990,” says a recognizably midwestern voice, as the camera focuses on a thin, dour young man in clerical clothes sitting in front of an altar, “and  habemus papem. W e have a pope.” So begins Pope Michael , a weird, intriguing, and distressing . . . . Continue Reading »

Another Lent is at our throats. At least that’s the way it feels. William F. Buckley is said to have answered someone who asked if he liked writing, “I like having written,” and that is my feeling about Lent. I like having done it. I would commend to  you the old practice of . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friends at Catholic Exchange have announced a new daily feature, starting at 6 p.m. today:  a live session called “Ask a Monk” in which a Brother Sebastian (the collective name for a group of cloistered Benedictine monks who want to remain anonymous to follow their Rule’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Democratic senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren “has assumed the mantle of oppressor,” Senator Scott Brown has said, The Weekly Standard ‘s blog reports. In supporting the contraception mandate, She and her allies on the left are dictating to Catholics and other people of faith . . . . Continue Reading »

Beginning with a quote from Philip Rieff is usually a good sign, and Thaddeus Kozinski does so in his  Religious Freedom and the Triumph of the Therapeutic , published on the Center for Morality in Public Life’s Ethika Politika weblog. He argues, as have others, that opposing the . . . . Continue Reading »

A couple additions from The Tablet on the subject of yesterday’s Limited Commemorations , pointing out that much of the worrisome statements comes from liberal organizations: The Hitler Test , in which a Weekly Standard  writer argues that The editors of magazines and newspapers have a . . . . Continue Reading »

“Hatred targeting Jews and Judaism remain disproportionately high,” writes the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in an article on the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, observed every January 27th. I’m not, by the . . . . Continue Reading »

First Things has a long and implacable commitment to the defense of unborn life and an equally long and implacable resistance to all the philosophies that seek to justify the utilitarian treatment of such life. Here’s a selection of articles, all of the most recent ones and a selection of . . . . Continue Reading »