Matthew Cantirino

A Video History of the Conclave Monsignor James P. Moroney, Rector’s Blog at St. John’s Seminary Hugo and the Hereafter Peter Wilson, Foreign Policy The Most Beautiful City Never Built Andrew Cusack So You Want to Be a Public Intellectual? Amanda Achtman, Intercollegiate Review Do . . . . Continue Reading »

This is fun—Mark Mitchell analyzes  a Sprint television commercial: While it might be a mistake to make too much of an ad, it seems appropriate to “read” them as representing the current cultural vibe, for if nothing else, advertisers are keen students of what motivates their . . . . Continue Reading »

Splendid Visions William Giraldi, Orion Beastly Justice: Medieval Animal Trials James McWilliams, Slate Rocco Palmo Is Not Going to Rome Stephan Sailsbury, Philadelphia Inquirer Is Celibacy a Sin? Walter Russell Mead, American Interest Surprise at Columbia Dawn Eden, Feast of Eden . . . . Continue Reading »

Roman Spring Ryan T. Anderson, Weekly Standard Fertility: Some of Us Are Just More Productive David Paul Deavel, Star-Tribune The Story of Our Glory David Mathis, Desiring God Cloistered Popes and Cloistered Emperors Lapham’s Quarterly Is Derrida Serious? Peter C. Blum, Imaginative . . . . Continue Reading »

Chairs Br. Philip Neri Reese O.P., Dominicana Benedict’s Lessons for Americans Elizabeth Scalia, The Guardian A Coming Methodist Exodus? John Lomperis, Juicy Ecumenism Conservatives Hindered by Ownership Ideal Mike Konczal, Bloomberg Allegorical Preaching: What Would Calvin Say? Jeffrey . . . . Continue Reading »

The Economist , where coverage of religion in the past has ranged vastly from snarky and ill-informed to  perceptive and subtle , has launched a new blog on the intersection of religion and public policy. Dubbed “Erasmus,” it will have a particular focus on religious freedom . . . . Continue Reading »

Realism Is Not Reality Daniel Siedell, Books & Culture Persecution in China Is Very Real Bob Fu, Christianity Today Why Does Death Still Surprise Us? Trevin Wax,  Kingdom People Pope and Oscar, Body and Spirit Lorenzo Albacete,  Il Sussidiario Aquinas and Everyday Emotions David . . . . Continue Reading »

Decentralization Done Wrong Alberto Alesina, City Journal Calvin’s Company of Pastors Michael Horton, Gospel Coalition Vocations Rose Under Benedict XVI Peter Jesserer Smith,  National Catholic Register Religious Satire in the Enlightenment (and Today) Anthony Gill & Christopher . . . . Continue Reading »

A Puritan and a Biologist on Beauty Justin Hawkins, Fare Forward Ecumenism, Asceticism, and the Common Good Dylan Pahman, Ethika Politka The Lost Art of Persuasion James K. A. Smith, Cardus What Hollywood Did to Johnny Cash Lee Habeeb, National Review Paperwork Against the People Rob Horning, . . . . Continue Reading »

Cass Sunstein reviews Sarah Conly’s Justifying Coercive Paternalism in the latest New York Review of Books : Her starting point is that in light of the recent findings, we should be able to agree that Mill was quite wrong about the competence of human beings as choosers. “We are too fat, . . . . Continue Reading »