In a piece recently published in the Wall Street Journal , Suzy Lee Weiss, a high-school senior, claims that colleges have been lying to her for years. She writes: Colleges tell you, “Just be yourself.” That is great advice, as long as yourself has nine extracurriculars, six leadership . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on reforming the Curia : The cast of mind in the Roman Curia must be changed, so that the entire Curia thinks of itself as its many good people now do: as servants of the New Evangelization, not as the twenty-first-century version of a papal court. That means that those curialists who . . . . Continue Reading »
” Throughout, the cardinal was the very picture of tranquility .” Richard John Neuhaus and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 1988. Read Ratzinger’s lecture on behalf of the Institute on Religion and Public life here . . . . . Continue Reading »
Some of you may remember Kevin Roose . In 2007, as a student at Brown University, he went undercover for a semester at Liberty University and reflected on his experience in The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University . Here is a . . . . Continue Reading »
The British newspaper The Independent has an article by Matthew Bell on the Alpha Course , which it describes, interestingly, as “British Christianity’s biggest success story.” Being the Independent , and standing at the far distant extreme of secularism, . . . . Continue Reading »
Mom’s Faith Wins Out Naomi Schaefer Riley, New York Times Curia Reform? Bank on It John L. Allen, Jr., National Catholic Reporter Interlocutions: Defining First Principles Steven Wedgeworth & Peter Escalante, Calvinist International The Few Witnesses to the Resurrection Bl. John Henry . . . . Continue Reading »
So I was watching Fox News’s excellent Special Report with Bret Baier . Baier was reporting about how the special exchange for small businesses is going to have to be delayed for another year. This is on top of other reports that Obamacare will cost the government more than expected, will . . . . Continue Reading »
Unlike baseball managers, writes Robert Patterson in the Washington Examiner , Republican leaders — “the same old roster of political consultants, think-tank policy wonks and losing-candidate types” — don’t get fired for failure. One reason they’ve . . . . Continue Reading »
I posted a review on the First Things website of Michael Voris’ “FBI: Homosexuality,” and it’s raised a few hackles in the com-box. My basic thesis is the Voris’ production is not really an effort in evangelism or apologetics, so much as it is an expression . . . . Continue Reading »
Hanna Rosin argued in the Atlantic last fall that the hook-up culture, far from harming women, is actually “an engine of female progress.” Some of the research she used to make that argument, however, does not support her thesis. The standard analysis of the hook-up . . . . Continue Reading »
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