David Mills

For future planning, Fordham’s Natural Law Colloquium will be offering a lecture on The Natural Law Origins of the American Right to Privacy by Anita L. Allen of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. It will be held on Wednesday, March 28, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the McNally . . . . Continue Reading »

Mercedes has apologized  (but only “to those who took offense”) for using Che Guevara as a symbol, which I mentioned in yesterday’s The Benz and the Psychopath . The company’s statement: In his keynote speech at CES, Dr. Zetsche addressed the revolution in automobility . . . . Continue Reading »

A friend sent me the link to the grimly amusing  El Che: The Crass Marketing of a Sadistic Racist  by the Heritage Foundation’s Michael Gonzalez. Mercedes Benz, it turns out, just launched a new car in front of a giant picture of Che Guavara with the Mercedes Benz symbol on his . . . . Continue Reading »

For those of you near Columbia, South Carolina: a symposium on Religion in the Civil War , to be held on Saturday, January 28th. The keynote speaker is the historian George C. Rable, author of God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the Civil War , which both won the Jefferson . . . . Continue Reading »

An English Catholic bishop makes what to some of us is an obvious point: Bishop asks if church should stop funding schools that are ‘Catholic in name only” . The Bishop of Lancaster, Michael Campbell, wrote in his new year’s day pastoral letter that parishes needed to . . . . Continue Reading »

Dr. Margaret Barker will be giving the 2012 Fr. Alexander Schmemann Lecture at St. Vladimir’s Theological Seminary in Yonkers on Sunday, January 29th at 4:00 p.m. The lecture will be titled “Our Great High Priest: The Church as the New Temple.” Barker, according to the . . . . Continue Reading »

To balance yesterday’s rather optimistic “On the Square” article The Potomac and the Tiber —I don’t myself see much reason to believe that Gingrich has been affected by Catholic social teaching—here is a different view of Gingrich’s character, Newt the . . . . Continue Reading »

The other day someone asked about our children, and my answer worried him, or at least he claimed to be concerned. When they hear the answer to their question, many people get a look on their faces similar, I imagine, to the look they’d get if I said we refused to have our children vaccinated or . . . . Continue Reading »

“If the Occupiers were right about one thing, it was that there is a growing inequality in American life,” writes David Paul Deavel in One Percent or 33: America’s Real Inequality Problem in the Acton Institute’s Religion and Liberty . But to the extent they articulate any . . . . Continue Reading »

An fyi, though I can find no information on the web about it: On February 27th, the G. K. Chesterton Institute (publisher of The Chesterton Review , on whose board I sit) and the American Bible Society will be sponsoring a conference on  Chesterton and the Bible. It will be held at the . . . . Continue Reading »