David Mills

In  John Jay Study: A $2 million exercise in political correctness , Catholic writer Louie Verrecchio argues that the new report on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church — which did “did a remarkable job of gathering an unprecedented amount of information” — avoided the . . . . Continue Reading »

In yesterday’s “On the Square” column, Families and False Prophets , I wrote about the effects of . . . what’s the polite word . . . fanciful predictions of the future, such as that famously offered by the radio preacher Harold Camping. Which didn’t come true, forcing . . . . Continue Reading »

As you will have noticed, the world did not come to an end”or, to be precise, begin to come to an end”on Saturday evening at 6:00 local time, wherever you happened to be. The latest false prophet to be picked up by the media for the comic possibilities he provided proved to be wrong, as everyone but the gullible and deceived knew he would… . Continue Reading »

Readers amused or bemused by the radio preacher Harold Camping’s predictions that the world will go pear-shaped tomorrow may want to read Meghan Duke’s amusing and insightful Save the Date . She reviews some previous failed predictions, as well as the more widely respected secular . . . . Continue Reading »

Two very different items from the web you may find of interest: 1) Those who enjoyed David B. Hart’s  A Person You Flee at Parties , his analysis of the Devil and Donald Trump, may find of interest an article by an Italian economist, Luigi Zingales, comparing Trump and Berlusconi. . . . . Continue Reading »

In yesterday’s Europe’s Concerned, Worried, and Doubting , I wrote on the reaction of the European left to the killing of Osama bin Laden. I thought, and think, even after the distressed responses, that one can legitimately be pleased that justice has been done by an action that seems . . . . Continue Reading »

When the world learned that the United States had killed Osama bin Laden, shrewd observers of the liberal political class, particularly its European chapters, knew how they were going to be talking about it. The nearly universal jubilation will be indulged for a day or two, and then the usual brows will furrow and the wise and good begin to express their concerns and worries and doubts. … Continue Reading »

A great photo essay on military dogs . You couldn’t do this with cats. A cat would defect to the Taliban if they made a better offer. “Is that warm milk, Mr. bin Laden? For me ? Oh, you shouldn’t have! Oh, yeah, the soldiers are behind the tree over there.” Real . . . . Continue Reading »

“But even as the Jesuits brace for near-extinction in this part of the world, their ideals are spreading,” writes a sympathetic Washington Post reporter in Fewer Jesuit priests this Easter, but more people learning Jesuit ideals . The lack of new priests, they say, must be part of . . . . Continue Reading »

He was, as the newspapers always put it, born Jimmy Slattery of Massepequa, Long Island, before going to New York City and becoming Candy Darling, a transvestite star of Andy Warhol’s famous Factory. He earned a small fame in the long decade of the sixties: one of the subjects of Lou Reed’s “Walk On the Wild Side” (it is not a flattering reference) and the subject of Reed’s song “Candy Says,” mentioned by the Rolling Stones in one of their songs, the star of two of Warhol’s better known movies, chosen by Tennessee Williams to act in one of his plays, the center of a famous party attended by people like George Plimpton and the clothes designer Halston, and now 36 years after his death the subject of an apparently worshipful documentary called Beautiful Darling… . Continue Reading »