Matthew Cantirino

Br. Raymund Snider, O.P. makes a  Summa -style inquiry into whether the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas are “boring” —appropriately enough, given that yesterday was his feast day. Particularly charming is the argument from girth: Objection 1:  It would seem that Thomas . . . . Continue Reading »

An Unrecognizable America Carson Holloway, Public Discourse The Possibility of Progress Jeremy Kessler, New Atlantis Pride and Prejudice at 200 Heather Horn, Atlantic In Defense of Church-Hopping Michelle Van Loon, Her.menutics St. Gregory Nazianzen as Confessional Theologian Eclectic Orthodoxy . . . . Continue Reading »

Hope, Despair, and the Fortunes of Permanence Wilfred M. McClay, The University Bookman To Bury or to Burn? David Jones, The Gospel Coalition Divided by Abortion, United by Feminism Ross Douthat, New York Times The Gridlock Illusion R. Shep Melnick, The Wilson Quarterly Secular and Pro-Life Leslie . . . . Continue Reading »

Roger Trigg, of Georgetown’s Religious Freedom Project, breaks down the four recent decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, which Mark Movsesian also  pondered on our blog earlier this week. Trigg agrees with Movsesian that, while “religious liberty” claims do . . . . Continue Reading »

Stand for Life: An Interview with John Piper Trevin Wax, Kingdom People Are “New Evangelicals” Simply Reverting to Type? John Milbank, The Immanent Frame Since We’re Not Going to Burn Our TVs . . . Andrea Palpant Dilley, Her.menutics Postmodernity and the Long Reach of the Past . . . . Continue Reading »

Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as Vocation Paul D. Miller, Schaeffer’s Ghost How Politics Infected Sports Marc Tracy, The Book Whom Are We Friends with and Why? Hannah Jung, Dartmouth Apologia Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm Leah Libresco, Fare Forward Lutheran Ordinariate Coming? . . . . Continue Reading »

Four Italian intellectuals with sympathy for the politics of the Old Left issued a “Ratzingerian Marxist” manifesto late last year: Their manifesto is, in effect, an explicit declaration of appreciation of the vision of Pope Benedict XVI. Tronti [one of the four] says: The current . . . . Continue Reading »

Abstraction Rightly Understood James Matthew Wilson, Front Porch Republic Happy 100th, Carl Henry Jordan J. Ballor, Touchstone Reading Writers I Can’t Stand Maria Bustillos, New Yorker It’s Time for a New Feminism Elise Italiano,  Public Discourse How Abortion Became an Evangelical . . . . Continue Reading »

Emergents Come to Memphis Bart Gingerich, Juicy Ecumenism King’s Dream, the Good Society, and the Moral Law Chuck Colson, Breakpoint You Are Going to Die Tim Krieder, New York Times The Swiss-Cheese Theory of Natural Law Michael W. Hannon, Ethika Politika It’s the Stupid Culture Robert . . . . Continue Reading »

Against Political Pragmatism Alex Worship, Prospect The Return of Teleology John Farrell, Forbes Moving Away from “Choice”? Anna North, BuzzFeed Manti Te’o and the Breakdown of Journalism Mallary Jean Tenore, Poynter How MLK Overcame “Christian” Opposition Russell D. . . . . Continue Reading »