David Mills

In the Fall of 2010, for the first time ever,  First Things will release its own college rankings and guide. As many of you will know from experience, picking the right college is a difficult and trying process, especially for parents and students concerned not only with academic quality . . . . Continue Reading »

R. R. Reno exposes An Error Worse Than Error , today’s “On the Square” entry. He began  his life as a teacher eager to help students learn to think critically and avoid falling into error and has found since that “critical thinking” was not the only or even the . . . . Continue Reading »

Something two years old but which I just came across and post for those interested:  The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing , a report claiming that these problems cost taxpayers a huge amount of money, much of which could be saved by programs supporting marriage. According . . . . Continue Reading »

Tomorrow in “On the Square,” senior editor R.R. Reno will explain what is a far greater but also subtler danger to the intellectual than error. Until then, you may want to read or check teh discussion of today’s “On the Square” article, senior editor David . . . . Continue Reading »

For those who like this kind of thing, here is something sent to Father Edward Oakes by a reader of his E.T., Phone Here . It’s a selection from the first epistle of Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man . Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know? Of . . . . Continue Reading »

The mystery novelist P. D. James is often described as a Christian, but a Daily Telegraph profile says of her: On that delicate subject [death], James breezily says, she doesn’t know whether there is an afterlife or not. ‘But no doubt I’ll find out one way or the other.’ Though . . . . Continue Reading »

Just in case you missed them, “On the Square” today offers another double feature: Father Edward Oakes’ E.T., Phone Here and Archbishop Charles Chaput’s Fire on the Earth . Father Oakes begins with Fermi’s Paradox about the possibility of life on other planets and . . . . Continue Reading »

While the English have virtually approved assisted suicide in the Debby Purdy case , the approval doesn’t cover assistance that is in fact direct killing because the person being assisted can’t quickly kill himself, even with help. Now, ‘Locked in syndrome’ man asks High . . . . Continue Reading »

Today “On the Square” offers a double feature: Lee J. Strang’s explanation of what the First Amendment really said about freedom of religion,  Church, State, and Original Intent , and George Weigel’s analysis of the famous Lutheran historian’s misunderstanding of . . . . Continue Reading »

In Homecoming , a journalist explains “What soldiers are searching for when they return from the frontlines.” (Interested readers will want to read our In the Name of the Sons .) In Whistling past the graveyard , a law professor reviews Stephen D. Smith’s new book The . . . . Continue Reading »