David Mills

In Who’s Sorry Now? , Elizabeth Scalia asks what Democrats are not so ostentatiously sorry as they were in 2004.  She suggests, in today’s first “On the Square” article, that they may have seen something they’re actually sorry about. . . . . Continue Reading »

The Last of the Legendary Mitfords , now the Duchess of Devonshire, tells the story of her fascinating family, which among the sisters included one novelist, one Communist, one Fascist, one admirer of Hitler, and herself. Millions and millions of people died in the “Bloodlands” of . . . . Continue Reading »

Today in “On the Square,” I offer a reflection on the bright cheerful promise of “death with dignity” and what true dignity entails, and requires.  Death Dignified by Christ is a meditation, of sorts, for the octave (the eighth day after) the Feast of All Saints. . . . . Continue Reading »

He was a dignified man suffering all the embarrassing ways cheerful young women the age of his granddaughter deal with the body’s failure as cancer begins shutting down the organs. Dying in a hospice, you lose all rights to modesty as you lose control of your body… . Continue Reading »

Home Run for Hispanic Humanist reviews the work of Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa as “that rare specimen who is both an academic and a man of action, an artist and an activist, a complex, passionate personality and a hard-headed politician. In the dark days of tyranny, he stood for . . . . Continue Reading »

“Pope Benedict XVI today assured top leaders of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that he would continue to raise his voice against anti-Semitism and attempts to isolate the state of Israel,” reports  a press release from the ADL sent by William Doino, author of a recent . . . . Continue Reading »

A selection of eastern saints recognized in both the Catholic and Orthodox calendars, though they lived after the Great Schism of 1054. Nearly half of Americans don’t think Daylight Savings Time worth the hassle . 11% think they should turn their clocks forward on Sunday. The greatest number . . . . Continue Reading »

Our assistant editor Kevin Staley-Joyce sends a reminder of a website at which you can find a lot of Father Richard John Neuhaus’s articles, interviews with him, and open letters he wrote, as well as a long list of articles about him and reviews of his books. Go to the Richard John Neuhaus . . . . Continue Reading »

“Even if these good aspects of the legislation [the health care bill] are outweighed by its bad aspects, that is, if the net effect of the legislation at the moment is to advance abortion, it should not be repealed,” writes law professor and First Things writer Richard Stith in . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s first “On the Square” article, Losana Boyd reviews a new collection of poems, Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City . “Brokenness haunts the pages” of the book, she writes in A Poet Haunted by Brokenness ., and the poet’s work “focuses on . . . . Continue Reading »