The Editors

George Weigel on Václav Havel and us : Václav Havel, who died this past Dec. 18, was one of the great contemporary exponents of freedom lived nobly. His moral mettle proved true in both the world of ideas and the world of affairs; indeed, few men of the past half-century have moved more . . . . Continue Reading »

Elizabeth Scalia on prosperity’s constant conflict : Though our impoverished origins were centuries established, the only remaining connection to them is in our church, and for many of our siblings and cousins that is a tenuous connection, indeed, for prosperity and good fortune rarely prompt . . . . Continue Reading »

R.R. Reno on the Wall Street Journal ’s libertarian blinders : I have long suspected that free-market libertarians aren’t all that different from postmodern relativists who insist that human beings have no natural end, no normative patterns for life. Some recent editorials in the Wall . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter J. Leithart on the poetry of sex : Medieval Christians were obsessed with the Song of Songs. No book of the Bible received such intensely devoted attention in commentary and preaching. Bernard of Clairvaux preached eighty-six homilies on the Song and died just as he was getting started on . . . . Continue Reading »

Matthew J. Franck on what comes after Hosanna-Tabor : Yesterday’s unanimous Supreme Court decision in  Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School  v.  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , upholding a small Lutheran school’s right to control its employment of . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel on converts to Catholicism and the “symphony of truth” : If there is a thread running through these diverse personalities, it may be this: that men and women of intellect, culture and accomplishment have found in Catholicism what Blessed John Paul II called the . . . . Continue Reading »

Elizabeth Scalia on bringing death into the light : Death, for the people of that era, and every era before, was no stranger and brought no squeamishness. There was nothing mysterious about death beyond those questions we still ask—will we see them again in the next life, and why, so often, do . . . . Continue Reading »

Leroy Huizenga on the media’s misunderstanding of Pope Benedict : The Pope’s message for the 45th World Day of Peace, New Year’s Day, was released a couple weeks early on Friday, December 16, by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Francis X. Rocca wrote a piece the . . . . Continue Reading »

Kathryn Walker reviews  Raised Right : Sometimes it’s hard to understand why young people deviate from the conservative mentalities of their parents during their young adult years, but  Raised Right: How I Untangled my Faith from Politics  offers an explanation for the switch. . . . . Continue Reading »

Russell E. Saltzman on child safety and regulations on American farms : The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed new regulations that will address child labor on farms. Among the proposed rules, paid child workers (these could be kids employed by their own families) under the age of fifteen would . . . . Continue Reading »