Matthew Cantirino

The (comparatively tiny) but growing percentage of expectant mothers opting for “natural” birth methods and home care has alarmed one French feminist (Elisabeth Badinter), whose newest book, The Mommy Trap , functions as a sort of anti-Luddite treatise, according to Heather . . . . Continue Reading »

Professor Patrick Deneen has posted the text of one of his  recent lectures  to his blog, What I Saw in America . In his remarks, delivered to the University of Texas at Austin (originally under the title “Against Great Books,” later softened to “Why Great . . . . Continue Reading »

Death by Treacle Pamela Haag,  The American Scholar In an Apocalyptic Daze Pascal Bruckner,  City Journal Social Issues Sink to the Bottom Pew Research Center The 20-Year Nostalgia Cycle Forrest Wickham,  Browbeat Heroic Catholicism, Not Casual Catholicism Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, . . . . Continue Reading »

Amid reports of a possible rapprochement between the Society of St. Pius X, an “ultratraditionalist” group in the genuine, non-propagandistic sense of that term, and the Vatican, comes a letter from an SSPX branch in the United States rebuffing invocations of religious liberty in the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Country with No Artists Alana Goodman, Commentary How Byzantine Was the Byzantine Tax Code? Brian A. Palmer, Slate Benedict XVI, “One Man Idea Factory” Michael Cook, Mercator.net The Persecution of China’s Last American Bishop Jillian Melchior, The Daily Remaking the . . . . Continue Reading »

R. R. Reno, editor of this very magazine, was interviewed by Glen Lewerenz of Relevant Radio on March 27, 2012. The discussion begins with Reno’s April “Public Square” piece, entitled “Relativism’s Moral Mission,” and branches out to related topics including . . . . Continue Reading »

Robert Royal has an article up at Catholic Thing in which he explores our ineradicable longing for intimate, small-scale communities and the major obstacles a postindustrial, interconnected world throws up against a realization of those ideals. Linking this dilemma to a larger dichotomy between . . . . Continue Reading »

As Benedict XVI celebrates his seventh year in the Chair of St. Peter (and his 85th birthday) this week, Marco Tosatti at Vatican Insider offers some information  you’re not likely to hear from most media outlets, detailing some of the quietly transformative work this pope has been . . . . Continue Reading »

The Downside of Cohabiting Before Marriage Meg Jay, New York Times Reclaiming the UN’s Universal Declaration Piero A. Tozzi, Turtle Bay and Beyond Flannery O’Connor’s Sacramental Feminism Barbara Wheeler, Dappled Things My Life as a Failed Country Gentleman P. J. O’Rourke, . . . . Continue Reading »

The  New York Times  today offers a review of a new television show which centers around the lives and careers of four young, unhappy New York women. Though the back page of the arts section features a typically suggestive full-page advertisement for Girls , what’s rather . . . . Continue Reading »