David Mills

Barry Arrington, responding to R. R. Reno’s “On the Square” column The Idols of Revisionist Theology , writes: I suppose we have an obligation to challenge and defeat error wherever we find it, but I sometimes wonder whether we really need to kick every barking dog. . . . . Continue Reading »

For those of you who didn’t look at the list of  resources at the end of R. R. Reno’s The Idols of Revisionist Theology , let me point you to the very interesting essay he quotes and commends: the Lutheran theologian David Yeago’s Gnosticism, Antinomianism, and Reformation . . . . Continue Reading »

Despite the pleasure he took in the election results, writes David Hart in today’s “On the Square” article, Anarcho-Monarchism : as is always the case here below in the  regio dissimilitudinis , the pleasure is accompanied by an inevitable quantum of pain. The sweetest . . . . Continue Reading »

There is only “case of collective conversion to Judaism in Europe in modern times,” and it occurred in a small southern Italian village in fascist Italy. The prime minister of Canada describes what that country is doing to combat anti-semitism , which “targets the Jewish people by . . . . Continue Reading »

In the first to today’s “On the Square” articles, R. R. Reno examines The Idols of Revisionist Theology . They are not the kind of idols Scripture condemns, but precisely the kind of dogmatic security more traditional Christians believe protects us from idolatry. Perhaps . . . . Continue Reading »

In Lessons From the Post-Vietnam Military , today’s second “On the Square” article, George Weigel argues that “authentic Catholic reformers have a lot to learn from the men who [in the decades after the end of the Vietnam war] turned a crumbling Army—riven by racial . . . . Continue Reading »

In his Happy Birthday, Marines below, Joe Carter humbly neglects to mention the “On the Square” article he wrote for today on a related subject, The True Liberty to Forget . He begins with a story of his days as a Marine recruiter and the surprising ignorance of a young woman he meets . . . . Continue Reading »

Though we don’t celebrate Veterans Day until Thursday, in preparation readers may want to read Joe Carter’s “On the Square” article from last year: What a Veteran Knows . For me, it’s a useful reminder to think about those the day celebrates and what we owe them — . . . . Continue Reading »

“Many students,” especially freshmen, writes an English professor at West Point, “do not rate their knowledge very highly; they divorce their private or extracurricular expertise from knowledge they acquire in a formal academic context,” and they need to read Sherlock Holmes . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s second “On the Square” article, painter and art critic Maureen Mullarkey reviews an exhibit at a New York museum comparing icons in Orthodox Christianity and Tibetan Buddhism. Modernity’s Seductive Hedges begins: Modernity offers uneasy secularists two seductive . . . . Continue Reading »