David Mills

Today, in “On the Square,” we have two topical articles. In the first David Hart offers his thoughts on New Year’s Eve, which are somewhat different from R. R. Reno’s, which he wrote about in his column yesterday. “Now that I have a family of my own, we do observe the . . . . Continue Reading »

A man who grew up in a Communist family in Puerto Rico describes his movement out of the party and its anti-Americanism, as well as his observations on racial politics and the Left in America. While a memoir of the Gulag , and of European anti-semitism, has just appeared in English, 53 years . . . . Continue Reading »

Our senior editor David Goldman discusses the “two stories within the terrible history of Germany and the Jews .” The first, he writes, “is the story of the German Jews, Europe’s most assimilated community, who contributed to German civic life in vast disproportion to their . . . . Continue Reading »

Looking at a selection of conservative political cartoons, I saw one published on Christmas day showing Santa Claus poking his head through a poster saying “Happy Holidays” and apparently shouting “Merry Christmas.” At first glance, it seems like a simple way of pushing back . . . . Continue Reading »

“We have allowed silence to become a gift forgotten, one we only consent to unwrap when all of our alternative bows and strings have been unraveled, and our diversions have been utterly played out,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in today’s “On the Square” column, For 2011: . . . . Continue Reading »

Not, I admit, exactly a column, or at least not an original column. But curious to see what we’d said about Christmas in “On the Square,” I found some quotes I liked and wanted to pass on. Three are by Father Neuhaus, the fourth by a Lutheran pastor, Paul Gregory Alms. The sources of the full articles appear at the end … Continue Reading »

John Haldane, the author of Philosophy Lives in the January issue, offers his description of the Catholic vision of Mary on BBC Radio, in a very personal (but philosophically sound) reflection. You need to wait a couple of minutes for his segment to come on. It will up for four more days. . . . . Continue Reading »

Today in “On the Square”, R. R. Reno reflects on The Incarnation and William Doino offers the words of Father Alfred Delp as Meditations for the End of Advent . Fr. Delp, executed by the Nazis in 1945, wrote, for example: History now becomes the Son’s mode of existence; historical . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers of George Weigel’s The Pope, the Church, and the Condom , published in “On the Square” last Friday, will be interested to know that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has issued a clarification of Benedict’s now infamous remark in L ight of the World . . . . . Continue Reading »

Nicholas Windsor’s Caesar’s Thumb from the December issue is now available online. Subtitled “Europeans should not forget their most pressing moral issue: abortion,” it begins with a survey of the moral and other accomplishments of Western civilization, but continues: Is it . . . . Continue Reading »