David Mills

With Randmania breaking out this weekend with the appearance of a movie of Atlas Shrugged , readers may like to see William F. Buckley looking back on her work . He mentions the great review of the book by Whitaker Chambers’ review of Atlas Shrugged , published at the end of 1957, Big Sister . . . . Continue Reading »

In the latest issue of Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture , our friend Father Thomas Guarino describes the “postmodern Christianity” of the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo, said by Guarino to be a major voice in Europe now being increasingly read and discussed here . . . . Continue Reading »

Two-something years ago, after the election of Barack Obama over an inconsistently conservative Republican, when the right’s future looked dim, almost everyone on the right seems to have started arguing about the future of conservatism: not so much over what it is, but over who is a real one, who is committed and who will compromise, who are the heretics, apostates, and moles, what are its political prospects, and how to win back power… . Continue Reading »

Next Saturday, the Center for Catholic Studies at Nassau Community College on Long Island is holding a conference on  Catholic Social Thought, Social Science and Social Policy . The center is run by Dr. Joseph Varacalli , one of the founders of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. I hope . . . . Continue Reading »

“The tax went up, and we started selling 10 times as much. Bloomberg thinks he’s stopping people from smoking. He’s just turning them onto loosies,” says Lonnie Warner, known to his customers on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan as “Lonnie Loosie,” of his business selling . . . . Continue Reading »

On Friday, our assistant editor Kevin Staley-Joyce, once a junior fellow himself, posted a note about the magazine’s Junior Fellows program . I join him in commending to your attention the notice to the right and in asking older readers to forward it to any college senior or recent graduate . . . . Continue Reading »

Kevin Staley-Joyce sent me the link to this chart describing the process of writing. It is generally accurate for journalistic writing when the material should give you the angle and the outline, but too optimistic if applied to other types of writing when you have to say something insightful and . . . . Continue Reading »

Food Inflation Kept Hidden in Tinier Bags , reports the New York Times . Because the prices of raw materials are going up, food companies have developed various ways of maintaining their profits by hiding the fact that they’re offering less than they did before. Ms. Stauber, 33, said she . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers of my Homeschooling Freedom , yesterday’s On the Square column, may enjoy an article on homeschooling by a very bright young man who is now a homeschooled high school senior, and explains what his life is like in an article published in Imagine , the magazine of Johns Hopkins Center . . . . Continue Reading »

The other day I had one of those discussions people who home school their children sometimes have, when someone asks about your children, which in America always includes where they go to school. We home school our two youngest, and have since kindergarten, with the exception of two years early on at our parochial school. The response varies to the news that you do something still considered, even by some conservative Christians, odd, eccentric, and possibly subversive… . Continue Reading »