David Mills

Evelyn Birge Vitz and Paul C. Vitz write on Women, Abortion, and the Brain , examining the traumatized response of even some pro-choice who’ve had abortions. “For many women, their abortion turns out to have been a nightmare from which they cannot wake up.” Also from Public . . . . Continue Reading »

Writing in The Guardian , the leftiest of the English broadsheets, a former MP offers a “manifesto for secularist change” . He leads the article with the claim that “secularism” is “unfairly characterized and attacked by religious leaders as a way of seeking to protect . . . . Continue Reading »

A special double-feature today in “On the Square.” First, David Hart presents an even more provocative argument than usual in The Greatest Nation on Earth .  It is not America for, he writes, “I was not really raised with any firm sense of being an American; it was not part . . . . Continue Reading »

According to a new poll , a press release for which I’ve just received, only about one in six Americans think Glenn Beck would be a good leader for a religious movement. This strikes me as similar to polling people on whether the First Things editors should try out for the New York Knicks, . . . . Continue Reading »

Another apparently unsolvable conflict of church and the state in the guise of public schooling: a girl in North Carolina has been suspended from school for wearing a (very small) nose ring, which is against the dress code, unless the child has a religious reason, which this child claims to do, as . . . . Continue Reading »

Another day of double-offering in “On the Square”. First we have R. R. Reno’s regular article, this one titled Love Rather Than Theory and dealing with the difference between thinking things through and what the modern intellectual does. “The intellectual is an intellectual . . . . Continue Reading »

“All current versions of Christianity can be very conditionally divided into two major groups – traditional and liberal,” said Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Department for External Church Relations, speaking to a group of . . . . Continue Reading »

In The Terry Jones saga shows the strength of anti-Americanism , Janet Dailey — who is, I think, an American living in England — argues that when the “absurdity” of believing that some “wacko fantasist,” by which she means Pastor Jones, could destroy “any . . . . Continue Reading »

You probably don’t know this, but the editor of the Human Life Review , Maria McFadden Mafucci, was present for the famous “great raid” that led to the launching of First Things . The Review will be hosting their annual Great Defender of Life dinner in New York on . . . . Continue Reading »

Another double-offering in “On the Square” today. First, in her Tuesday column, Elizabeth Scalia reflects on the meeting next week of The Twentieth Century’s Last Great Figures . Benedict XVI and Elizabeth II “know all too well what happens when governments and ideologies . . . . Continue Reading »