Editors

Last week a study appeared in Computers and Human Behavior under the title “The brain in your pocket: Evidence that Smartphones are used to supplant thinking.” A summary of the findings in ScienceDaily bore the header “Reliance on smartphones linked to lazy thinking.” Researchers tested 660 subjects and found a clear correlation between high smartphone use and lower cognitive skills, especially “the willingness to think in an analytical way.” Continue Reading »

Memo to Supreme Court: State Marriage Laws Are Constitutional
Gene Schaerr & Ryan T. Anderson, The Heritage Foundation

Immortal Beloved
William Giraldi, The New Republic

Bare Ruined Choirs
Ellen Wilson Fielding, The Catholic Thing

Some Slant of Light
Joshua Auerbach, Asheville Poetry Review

Secularists vs. Providentialists
Richard M. Reinsch II, The American Conservative

What Scares the New Atheists
John Gray, The Guardian

Morality, Facts, and Opinions
Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

Epigenesis
Joseph Bathanti, Asheville Poetry Review

Cardinal Peter Turkson Delivers the Trocaire 2015 Lenten Lecture
Editors, Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference

Why Local Food Freedom Matters
Gracy Olmstead, The American Conservative

Dante's Dogs
Alberto Manguel, The New York Review of Books

Souls Matter
William Carroll, Public Discourse

“The Art of the Beautiful,” a summer school on faith & culture, and more.

Why Poor Women with Unintended Pregnancies Are Less Likely to Get Abortions
Amber Lapp, Family Studies

Flannery O'Connor to Betty Hester
The American Reader

Footfall
Julie Maclean, The Poetry Foundation

Danse Macabre
Andrew Nagorski, The Weekly Standard

Are LARCs the Solution to Nonmarital Childbearing?
Helen Alvaré, Family Studies

ISIS and What the World Really Wants
Br. Dominic Mary Verner,O.P., Dominicana

The Death of Writing - if James Joyce Were Alive Today He'd Be Working for Google
Tom McCarthy, The Guardian

How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time
Jonathan Berger, Nautilus

The Night Prayer of the Church as a “Rehearsal for Death”
Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Kant, Peter Pan, and Why Generation Y Won't Grow Up
Tom Slater, Spiked

Raul Lemesoff Turns a Ford Falcon into a Tank-Shaped Traveling Library
Nina Azzarello, Designboom

Why We Confess: From Augustine to Oprah
Elizabeth Stoker Bruening, The Hedgehog Review

Lincoln's 700 Words of Biblical Meditation
Daniel Dreisbach, Library of Law and Liberty

A Kiss
David Tomas Martinez, Poets.org

This is Russia
Brian Doyle, The American Scholar

2,500 Years of Gyms
Mark Mason, The Spectator

Song of Weights and Measurements
Martha Silano, The Poetry Foundation