Whew! I felt like I had just plunged head-first into 50-degree water after reading Angelo Codevilla’s magnificent essay in the American Spectator, America’s Ruling Class – And the Perils of Revolution. Continue Reading »
As World Cup football fever dies down, the Salesian News Agency has suggested that the sport needs a patron saint: In spite of the fact that FIFA had forbidden the use of religious symbols and gestures most of the players don’t seem to take any notice and openly express their religious faith. . . . . Continue Reading »
Obama’s Electronic Health Records Czar: HIV Status and Abortions Need Not be Included Dr. David Blumenthal, the Obama administration’s National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said on Tuesday that patients can choose to omit procedures such as . . . . Continue Reading »
If you expect Jesus to return within the next forty years, does that make you an optimist or a pessimist? The Pew Research Center recently released a survey about what events Americans believe will unfold in the next forty years. One interesting question asked about the return of Jesus Christ: As . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this week, Byron Williams headed out with his private arsenal. (See the San Francisco Chronicle article) Stopped by police for speeding, a gunbattle ensued. Now, as initial police reports reveal, “His intention was to start a revolution by traveling to San Francisco and killing . . . . Continue Reading »
I can’t remember the guy’s name, but I once saw an interview with one of the lead writers on the old “Batman” show with Adam West, which was a staple of my childhood. Evidently the guy had a master’s in historical linguistics or something and he told a . . . . Continue Reading »
Good news on the global AIDS front. The UN announced at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna that the prevalence of AIDS has been waning in the hardest hit areas of sub-Saharan Africa. The reason: people are taking the matter into their own hands by having fewer partners and putting off . . . . Continue Reading »
As a part of their Future of Religion series, the religion portal Patheos considers the future of Catholicism. Elizabeth Scalia notes the intriguing entry by my buddy (the best talk show host in America) Hugh Hewitt: The brief history of American Catholicism is this: mission, persecution, . . . . Continue Reading »
For the last several weeks I have been trying to develop an ecological orientation through the narrative imagination. By ecological orientation, I mean “a new consciousness of the country” or “a new relation to it,” as the narrator of O Pioneers! describes in the exquisite . . . . Continue Reading »
You write a book. Some reviews are good, some bad, and some middling. It’s not always fun, but that’s the life of an author.A middling review came out today in the New Republic’s website. All in all, given the source, I am not displeased. But I do have to correct . . . . Continue Reading »
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