Happy Wednesday! Here’s what we have for you to read today:
Over at Postmodern Conservative , Carl Scott is also reading The New Republic .
Peter Leithart is still reading about the Trinity , and also Objectivism (not that Objectivism . . . I think).
Dr. Boli made a few mistakes : “The rumor that the borough of Dormont has been rounding up Episcopalians and sending them to concentration camps in Baldwin Township is apparently unfounded.”
Here at First Thoughts , Peter Blair thinks about Francis .
On the Square today, we have George Weigel on the New Evangelization , Stephanos Bibas on presidential pardons , and Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on Francis and free market economics .
And that’s it—we’ll see you Monday.
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