David Mills

“This resorting to a knee-jerk superiority of sensibilities is itself a display of neurotic insecurity,” writes Elizabeth Scalia of the press and the center-left punditry, in today’s “On the Square” article, Rhetorical Axes and Park51 . [B]ut more importantly, it is . . . . Continue Reading »

“Unfortunately our recent study of the highly popular Earth-being religion Major League Baseball suggests that the planet’s dominant species—a semi-gelatinous, endoskeletal, sexually-reproducing biped—is not sufficiently evolved for consciousness absorption,” writes . . . . Continue Reading »

Today in “On the Square,” Joseph Bottum reflects on the Bible’s hard sayings, which are “too many, too hard, to be entirely exegeted away in historical criticism, or eased with gentler passages in antidote, or shrugged off as the overstatement of prophetic rhetoric,” . . . . Continue Reading »

A slow day, but here are three things. The lone piper on D-Day has died. His obituary in the Daily Telegraph begins “Millin began his apparently suicidal serenade immediately upon jumping from the ramp of the landing craft into the icy water. As the Cameron tartan of his kilt floated to the . . . . Continue Reading »

From time to time we’ll be posting links to articles our editorial board members and contributing writers have published online, under the running title “Our Writers Elsewhere” and with the date to help with searching. Here are links to articles one editor and one writer have . . . . Continue Reading »

In The 50 Most Influential Religious Figures in American History , Joe Carter mentions G. K. Chesterton’s famous description of America as “a nation with the soul of a church. Readers may be interested in the context in which he wrote that. The famous phrase appears at the end of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Today in “On the Square”: David Hart reflects on the Mysteries of Consciousness , through his own and a friend’s having (or being given) a premonition of a friend’s death the next day. Now, these things—my vague intuitions, Jacob’s haunting dream—may have been . . . . Continue Reading »

A pro-choice group runs ads with women dressed as bears , in a reference to Sarah Palin’s “momma grizzlies.” One woman says “Want to know what threatens me? My daughter not having the right to choose” and another that they want to “protect our right to . . . . Continue Reading »

“I’m walking from Erfurt, Germany, where an earnest young Augustinian friar named Martin Luther tried to get right with God, to Rome—500 years after said friar made the same journey himself,” writes the Lutheran scholar and pastor, and former First Things fellow, Sarah . . . . Continue Reading »

“The self-accusations are familiar,” writes R. R. Reno in The Pleasures of Self-Hatred , today’s “On the Square” offering. We are imperialists, racists, and purveyors of unsustainable consumption that threatens to engulf the world in an environmental . . . . Continue Reading »