Dawkins’ Odds

by David Mills

The odds of Richard Dawkins becoming the next pope, according to the Irish betting site Paddypower.com, is 666 to 1. . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Feb 2013 0

Carl’s Rock Songbook #77: Is Conor Friedersdorf Right That We Need More Conservative Rap Critics?

by Carl Scott

Well, he thinks so . And far more importantly, in my sincere judgment, Mark Judge does too . Judge writes for Acculturated, the conservative website that seeks to explain Why Pop Culture Matters. So this post is a continuation of some observations about rap , but also, about the paradoxes of . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Feb 2013 0

Campus Free Speech and Sabotage

by Mark Movsesian

Many readers will be familiar with  Christian Legal Society v. Martinez , the Supreme Court’s 2010 opinion upholding the constitutionality of an “all-comers” policy at the UC-Hastings law school. The all-comers policy required student groups, including religious . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Feb 2013 0

First Principles Seminar at Princeton

by Katherine Infantine

“ First Principles: Natural Law and the Theologico-political Question ” The seminar will be taught (and students will be housed) on the campus of  Princeton University from July 28 – August 10 . This year’s seminar will focus on the relation between natural law and the . . . . Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2013 0

Steelers Draft Point Guard to Improve Relief Pitching

by Matthew Schmitz

Should the next pope be a nun? a group of nuns? a non-Catholic? David Mills picks apart the refrains that have typified much of the press coverage of Benedict in a column for the Pittsburgh Catholic : Some of these supposed experts just get things wrong, like the television reporter who solemnly . . . . Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2013 0

Friendship in Between ‘Romance’ and Loneliness

by Wesley Hill

Early on in Mark Vernon’s insightful book The Meaning of Friendship , there’s this throwaway observation: “In TV soaps, the characters always have their friends to return to when their sexual adventures fail; lovers come and go, but friends remain.” Reading that sentence, I . . . . Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2013 0

Religious Liberty on NPR

by David Mills

“If you value the work that religious enterprises do, if you value the free exercise of religion, then you’re going to at least be sensitive to regulatory mandates that impose new and often pretty burdensome costs on them,” our friend and writer Richard Garnett told NPR yesterday . . . . Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2013 0

On the Square Today

by The Editors

Wesley J. Smith on euthanasia’s euphemisms : When a social movement must rely on euphemisms to obfuscate its goals, it is a good bet that there is something wrong with its agenda. From its very inception, euthanasia advocates have euphemistically bent language as a means of convincing society . . . . Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2013 0

Today’s Christians Looking More Jewish

by Katherine Infantine

T.S. Eliot wrote, “And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.” “That place,” says  Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein  at The Velvet Kippah , “for many Christians today, is looking more Jewish all the . . . . Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2013 0

First Links — 2.22.13

by Matthew Cantirino

Guided by a Cloud Br. Joseph-Anthony Kress O.P., Dominicana The Godless Delusion Neilson MacKay, Arma Virumque Turmoil in a Closed Community Sam Leith, Times Literary Supplement The Next Pope and His Name David Gutterman, Jewish Daily Forward Times Obsession with Church Reaches New Heights The . . . . Continue Reading »

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