David Mills

In How We Live Today , Joseph Bottum offers three images for how we live today, beginning with a bowling league. This is one of those essays the description of which gives away the effect, so just go read it. . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friend Joan Frawley Desmond has reviewed the new movie Never Let Me Go on the Catholic site Headline Bistro . Written by Kazuo Ishiguro — the British writer that earned global fame with The Remains of the Day , a riveting story of a class-bound butler in pre-war England — Never Let Me . . . . Continue Reading »

Maureen Mullarkey reviews a new biography of Lucian Freud . It is not a very good biography and she amusingly shows why. It s a model of such writing for those of you interested in writing. I particularly liked the phrase “museum-quality finesse” in  ”Gayford disinfects . . . . Continue Reading »

Carson Holloway discusses Friendship in foreign policy . Samuel Gregg explains the economic necessity of humility . Diogenes describes a group of very confused Irish priests , who approve of disgruntled women skipping Sunday Mass. Matthew Archbold denounces Randall Terry for giving lessons in . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel’s  Richard Dawkins & Co. = Paisley 2.0? is now up on “On the Square.” The title is not, as you’d guess, a compliment to the “New Atheists,” but it does offer Catholics, and to an extent other Christians, a real hope. . . . . Continue Reading »

Today, so far, two “On the Square” articles, with George Weigel’s column coming shortly. First, in Should You Trust the Monkey Mind? , Joe Carter argues against what he calls “evolutionary naturalism” because its own explanation of the origin of belief undermines its . . . . Continue Reading »

Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate a Vigil for All Nascent Human Life on Saturday, November 27th (the beginning of the first Sunday of Advent), and invites all Catholic diocesan bishops to do so as well. The vigil will be offered to “thank the Lord for his total self-giving to the . . . . Continue Reading »

Writing in The New York Review of Books , the former cardinal archbishop of Washington reports on the refugees the Iraq war has created , including the Christian refugees, who face constant threats of Islamist violence (the archbishop uses the word “sectarian”) as well as homelesssness. . . . . Continue Reading »

A little late, but for those of you who don’t naturally check out the home page every morning: In today’s “On the Square” article, Elizabeth Scalia writes against Cheating on the Habit of Being . Writing of a nun who justified dropping the habit in favor of street clothes, . . . . Continue Reading »

Sharon Angle, the Republican candidate for senator in Nevada running against Harry Reid, is now famous at least in liberal circles by attacking insurance mandates by saying “You’re paying for things you don’t even need.” Among them is maternity leave. As she says, . . . . Continue Reading »