Matthew Cantirino

Voters in North Dakota yesterday rejected a proposed amendment to the state constitution which would have increased the burden on civil authorities attempting to limit religion-based conscientious objection to state laws: North Dakota voters rejected Measure 3, which its proponents said was . . . . Continue Reading »

A Roundup of the Sr. Margaret Farley Controversy Elizabeth Scalia,  Patheos How Silence Works: E-mailed Conversations with Trappist Monks Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston,  The Awl Children at Protestant Communion Services Doug Wilson, Blog & Mablog Mindmaps and Kuyper’s Wisdom and . . . . Continue Reading »

That’s the setup for  Robert Fay’s article at Full Stop , in which the agnostic conservative British philosopher and the Nobel-prize nominated, ultra-nationalist Japanese author meet for a fictive conversation. The topic? Beauty, and the source and purpose of aesthetic judgments in . . . . Continue Reading »

Blurring the Boundaries Timothy Samuel Shah,  The Immanent Frame What We’re Reading (Summer 2012) Various, University Bookman Things Get Worse in Syria Notes on Arab Orthodoxy Total Recall: Wisconsin and the Jubilee Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review A Mathematician Among Creationists . . . . Continue Reading »

1.   Tom Sachs, Space Program: Mars at The Park Avenue Armory, through June 17 Sachs and a small army of assistants transform the vast Armory into a lunar landscape dotted with vehicles the artist has crafted from his signature material—plywood. 2.   Taryn Simon, A . . . . Continue Reading »

Writing in the New Republic , Richard Yeselson examines ” the long, slow death spiral of America’s labor movement ,” especially in the wake of the unions’ Wisconsin failure. Fifty years ago, Yeselson writes: People, for better or worse, knew what unions  did . . . . Continue Reading »

How the Drive-in Theater Helped Create the Megachurch Megan Garber,  The Atlantic Eucharistic Congress Opens in Turbulent Ireland Patsy McGarry and Genevieve Carbery, Irish Times Political Withdrawal, Reconsidered Joseph Wood,   The Catholic Thing Russia, Syria, and the Long Lens of . . . . Continue Reading »

As Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee this week (and temporarily causes Americans to pine, if not for monarchy, then for the kind of institutional stability and nondemocratic transcendence she embodies), a number of stories have cropped up mentioning her faith, which is usually . . . . Continue Reading »

The Theologian-hood of All Believers Steve Harmon,  ABP Blog New Fetal Genome Scan Will Test Society Wesley J. Smith,  The Corner Why is Faulkner So Under-Read? David Harvey,   The Economist On “Imposing Your Will” on Others Fr. Robert Barron,  Word on Fire . . . . Continue Reading »

Over the past few days, readers may have noticed two new names crop up on our blog. I, and the rest of the First Things editorial staff, would like to take this opportunity to formally introduce Ms. Sasha Tatasciore and Brother Sebastian White, O.P. Some brief background on our new additions, . . . . Continue Reading »