David Mills

In an article unexpectedly relevant to the news from California, R. R. Reno discusses Homosexuality and the Failure of Modern Education in today’s “On the Square.” Comparing the recent cases of academic intolerance in Illinois and Georgia, he writes that When it comes to sexual . . . . Continue Reading »

In The Great Typo Hunt , Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson recount one of the odder road trips you’ll hear about: a journey to find typos. Because, Deck says in a Salon.com interview , Typos cloud communication, which is the primary purpose of writing. If your text has typos, it’s going to . . . . Continue Reading »

The Religion News Service has produced a story on the most and least religious colleges , taken from the Princeton Review . Brigham Young was first, Sarah Lawrence last. We are producing our own analysis of the religious life and commitments of the top American universities and colleges, which will . . . . Continue Reading »

I stumbled across  Open Source Catholic while looking for something entirely different, and as our webmaster says it looks like a useful site, pass it along. It includes stories with mysterious titles like  Drupal Gardens enters Open Public Beta and understandable ones like Live-Blogging . . . . Continue Reading »

The word “evangelism” derives from the Greek word  evangel or ” good news,” writes our web editor Joe Carter in today’s lead “On the Square” article, Selling Jesus Like a Chevy . How odd then that so much evangelism appears to be about  selling . . . . Continue Reading »

Neither subject interests me much, but the juxtaposition caught my eye over breakfast: A Fashion Identity Crisis at Wal-Mart . It reported on the decline in the chain’s clothes sales and the judgments it needed to make about what kinds of clothes to sell in order to sell more. I’m not . . . . Continue Reading »

“What has got me so hot under the collar this time is a passage I just ran across in the revised version of Stephen Hawking’s  A Brief History of Time , called, amusingly enough,  A Briefer History of Time ,” writes Father Edward Oakes in today’s “On the . . . . Continue Reading »

In “The Last Gasp” , Scott Christianson, the author of a new book on the history of the gas chamber, reflects on that subject and capital punishment in general, though not with as much detail as one would like. This claim surprised me: the gas chamber was invented in the twenties, . . . . Continue Reading »

Today in “On the Square,” Joseph Bottum reflects on Anne Rice’s dramatic rejection of Christianity. In Rice’s Release , he writes that she is Always a day behind the fair. Always a beat behind the crowd. Mind you, that can be a very profitable position to hold: You can catch . . . . Continue Reading »

There’s a bit of shooting fish in a barrel to this, but it’s delicious anyway: Deepak Chopra Gets Owned . Thanks for the link to Steve Hayward of NoLeftTurns , who refers to Chopra as “one of those self-levitating frauds so common in our age.” In another Youtube . . . . Continue Reading »