David Mills

Something for those of you who love the nineteenth century Russian novelists. After reading David Hart’s  Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (and Christ) , an academic friend wrote me that he did not find Hart’s argument completely convincing. Hart had written, for example, that among the very . . . . Continue Reading »

A few links mainly of interest to Catholic readers. Writing in the  New Statesman , Carla Powell demands that liberals end their hostility to the pope , partly because he’s right about something they don’t see. Moral relativism has become a kind of intellectual disease, weakening . . . . Continue Reading »

My friend Gregory Laughlin sends a thought on the controversy over the Islamic community center being built near the 9/11 site: While all American cherish our rights of free speech and free exercise of religion as guaranteed in the First Amendment, there are some things which just shouldn’t be . . . . Continue Reading »

Another interesting article produced the Witherspoon Institute’s Public Discourse : Constitutional expert Matthew J. Franck’s Same-Sex Marriage and the Assault on Moral Reasoning . I mention the article in part because a legal scholar on our board calls it “by far the . . . . Continue Reading »

Today’s “On the Square” offers two articles, both giving insight into our own day through the stories of people who lived what might be called counter-Christian lives. In the first, David Hart reflects on Julian Our Contemporary , a man who, though “so fruitless an . . . . Continue Reading »

Art historians think the recent study of the amount of food in pictures of the Last Supper doesn’t prove what it claims to prove, and that maybe the artists just liked to paint. A Catholic biker couple explains their work in the Catholic Cross Bearers motorcycle apostolate . Christopher . . . . Continue Reading »

Coming tomorrow in “On the Square,” David Hart reflects on Julian the Apostate—once described in my hearing, by someone confused by the “X the Y” title, as “St. Julian the Apostate”—and how similar he is to us. In the meantime, if you have not read them . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s second “On the Square” article, George Weigel explains What Gettysburg Means .  If, he writes, Gettysburg was the pivot of the Civil War, and if the Civil War changed the country from “the United States  are . . . ” to “the United States  . . . . Continue Reading »

For our midwestern readers, at least those on the eastern side of the Midwest, news of two conferences being held in Pittsburgh: The first, which starts this afternoon, is the Newman Association of America’s annual conference . The main speakers include Fr. Ian Ker, author of the major . . . . Continue Reading »

“The Allied bombings in Europe, then, and the firebombing and atomic bombing in Japan, seem to have been deliberate targeting of civilian populations: in other words, intentional attacks on innocent human life,” writes Christopher Tollefsen in  The Abiding Significance of Hiroshima . . . . Continue Reading »