Joe Carter

Congratulations to Princeton legal philosopher and constitutional scholar Robert George, a member of the board of First Things , on being awarded the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland , which recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of human rights. . . . . Continue Reading »

Earlier this week in a post on fundraising—by the way, have you made a donation and taken advantage of the half-price print subscription rate ?—a reader asked: For its readers, does FT consider them “family,” part of a greater FT community? That’s an excellent question. I . . . . Continue Reading »

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College Crunch put together a list of twenty Christian professors that are “‘brilliant’ in the original sense of the word—they shine brightly among their peers as towering figures in the academic world. In addition, they are all Christians who do not hide their Christianity . . . . Continue Reading »

A couple of years ago, researchers at Oxford University compiled a list of the top ten most irritating expressions. Their list included overused office lingo, (24/7, synergy), grammatically incorrect constructions (“shouldn’t of”), and adverbs used out of context (literally, ironically).While everything on their list is certainly irritating, few of the items rise to the level of truly annoying. Perhaps Americans have a particular facility with our shared language because we seem to have a special affinity for creating trite catchphrases. Here are my eleven candidates for most annoying sayings: Continue Reading »

Almost every American who owned a television from the late 1960s to the early 1980s has watched an episode of Gilligan’s Island . And if you were a child during that era—in a time before cable and console video games—you probably watched all 98 episodes more than once. It shames me . . . . Continue Reading »

Rev. Kevin DeYoung on the glory of plodding : What we need are fewer revolutionaries and a few more plodding visionaries. That’s my dream for the church — a multitude of faithful, risktaking plodders. The best churches are full of gospel-saturated people holding tenaciously to a vision of . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s On the Square feature , George Weigel considers what should happen next for the Legionaries of Christ and its affiliated lay movement, Regnum Christi: 1. The prime imperative for the immediate future is to dismantle the “grand narrative” of Legion history within both the . . . . Continue Reading »

This video is a bit cheesy and goes on too long (it could use tighter editing) but I was compelled to post it because the first monk reminds me of one of my favorite minor characters in literature: Friar John from Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel . While I’m not Catholic, I do descend . . . . Continue Reading »

Mark Twain once said that, “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.” In our age, though, people still have reason to blush, but don’t seem to remember how. As Christine Rosen notes , we now live in a post-embarressment era: What ever happened to embarrassment? Why are an . . . . Continue Reading »