David Mills

In today’s first “On the Square” article, Joe Carter writes In defense of the TSA , on a day when annoyed Americans are planning to protest the security measures now being taken at airports. “You might assume,” he writes, that preventing a similar type of attack . . . . Continue Reading »

According to a poll, middle-aged Americans are unhappy about their sexual lives . “Some 24 percent of middle-aged group say they are dissatisfied, compared with only 12 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds, 20 percent of those 30-44 and 17 percent of those over 65.” Increasing numbers of . . . . Continue Reading »

Today, in “On the Square,” we’re very pleased to present some revealing and insightful quotes from Pope Benedict’s now famous book of interviews, Light of the World . The excerpts include the one that, released in partial form by the Vatican’s own newspaper and . . . . Continue Reading »

For reasons some of you may be able to explain, we’ve started getting a lot of comments on “On the Square” articles that are clearly written to order, often by people who do not write English very well. Most are generic and could fit any article, but some make some vague reference . . . . Continue Reading »

Today, in “On the Square,” instead of the regular column we offer Archbishop Charles Chaput’s review of the now controversial book by Pope Benedict, Light of the World . It is, he writes, a “remarkable book” and “an absolutely mandatory read for anyone who wants . . . . Continue Reading »

The position on the likely future borders of Israel offered by our colleague R. R. Reno in his “On the Square” article yesterday is, argues David Goldman in his “On the Square” article today, “very different from the position of the present Israeli government, or . . . . Continue Reading »

There is no such thing as “the Muslim world” and the phrase, favored by the major media, is a dangerous one. The president seems to recognize that, but still fails to speak effectively about religious freedom among Muslims. The man who writes student papers reveals what he does and why. . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s second “On the Square” article, assistant editor David Lasher reflects on the barriers to Jewish inclusiveness, and particularly on Rabbi Ben Greenberg’s proposal that unity be pursued through study of the Torah more than in shared ritual. He writes, in A . . . . Continue Reading »

Unfortunately, writes R. R. Reno in Bad Dreams , today’s first “On the Square” article, a Jesuit writing on the Holy Land in the Jesuit magazine  America offers “easy Leftist slogans rather than serious analysis” in his proposal for a single, and non-Jewish, . . . . Continue Reading »

Predictably, secular commentators and dissenting Catholics are not happy that the Catholic bishops elected Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, their next president. The Catholic League reports , for example: NPR is worried that Archbishop Dolan is “overtly conservative,” and Tim . . . . Continue Reading »