An exchange in Boston Review between Richard White and Gavin Jones on wealth during and since the Gilded Age reminded me of a question that arose during the Occupy Wall Street protests: To what extent has the decline of social stigmas contributed to the rise in economic inequality? Few would . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Doran on Benedict face to face with Islam : In 1095, in a carefully crafted speech before prelates and nobles in Claremont, France, Pope Urban II called Europe to action: A Crusade to aid the Christian empire of Byzantium. Emissaries of the emperor in Constantinople had come to Urban . . . . Continue Reading »
“A university academic has criticised David Attenborough’s wildlife shows for not featuring enough gay animals,” reports The Independent . The academic, named Mills, who I hope is a very, very distant relative, writing in the European Journal of Cultural Studies , says ‘The . . . . Continue Reading »
A Journey Through NYC Religions makes an appearance this weekend on PBS Television’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly . Sat Feb 23 10:30 am WNET-13 Sun Feb 24 10 am WLIW-21, 5:30 pm WNET 13 “We report on a project to document all of New York City’s houses of worship, block by . . . . Continue Reading »
Tyranny on Screen Anthony Sacramone, Intercollegiate Review All This in Remembrance Folke T. Olofsson, Touchstone The Audacity of de Gaulle Henrik Bering, Policy Review How Many American Jews Are There? J. J. Goldberg, Jewish Daily Forward Direct Killing as Intentional Killing E. Christian Brugger, . . . . Continue Reading »
I am not really picking a fight with Pete Spiliakos , but have less hope on the matter of arguing the abortion question than he does. Actually, there is nothing I would like better than to be able to revivify the public argument about human life. I don’t think the problem is that . . . . Continue Reading »
“I do find it a puzzling quality of liberal Christians that they tend to get excited when something that had been a cherished belief or practice of the Church is shown to have been false,” says Rod Dreher , commenting on a new book by a Notre Dame historian who says that the early . . . . Continue Reading »
in the New York Times: ...Eleven years after her husband went to prison, Ms. Hamilton followed his advice to divorce, but she didn’t remarry. Like other women in communities with high rates of incarceration, she faced a shortage of potential mates. Because more than 90 percent of prisoners are . . . . Continue Reading »
In the last few presidential elections, the strategy of the Republican presidential candidate has been to only talk about abortion when asked. The intention seems to be to signal pro-life views while not alienating voters for whom abortion is a low priority issue. This strategy is about mobilizing . . . . Continue Reading »
Irony has been the source of some anxiety lately, from this essay in the New York Times (critiqued here ), to R. R. Reno’s post last week on the HBO series Girls . (Or maybe this uncertainty has been with us for a while now .) Offering a bit of a different take is this article by . . . . Continue Reading »
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