A recent study concludes that roughly a fifth of college-age Americans have personality disorders. It’s hard to know what to make of this. On the one hand, you shouldn’t trust a bunch of psychiatrists to decide who needs a psychiatrist. But on the other hand, my own experience suggests . . . . Continue Reading »
This story is a charming little independent film waiting to happen: “It may seem that the winter in Siberia lasts all year round; there are very few people—so who will eat ice cream here apart from the bears? That was exactly our main advantage. Our competitors didn’t take us . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s experiences like this that create cynics. . . . . Continue Reading »
Christmas with the Holy Fathers : It’s the title of a handsome little book just published by Paraclete Press. Edited by Peter Celano, it features a hundred pages of meditations for Advent, Christmas, the Solemnity of Mary, and the Epiphany, drawn from the writings of popes from Leo I through . . . . Continue Reading »
Advent is chock full of good hymns: ” On Jordan’s Bank The Baptist’s Cry ,” ” Come Thou Long Expected Jesus ,” ” O Come, O Come Emmanuel ,” and many more. But my favorite, hands down, is “Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending.” I have many . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the great difficulties we have in debating important cultural and ethical issues is the lack of a common frame of reference. Or to put it another way, when language is used very sloppily—whether negligently or intentionally—it becomes almost impossible to adhere to precise . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel covers a recent address at Cambridge University by Fr. Christian Troll, “a key figure in the Catholic-Islamic dialogue launched by Pope Benedict XVI’s September 2006 Regensburg Lecture.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Australians looking skyward this evening will be greeted by a ” celestial smiley face “—thanks to the prime positioning of Venus, Jupiter and a waxing crescent moon, report good-humored astronomers. Local astronomers said that Venus and Jupiter had appeared side by side in the . . . . Continue Reading »
A book is “a means of transportation through the space of experience, at the speed of a turning page,” the poet Joseph Brodsky once said. “But now that the rustle of the book’s turning page competes with the flicker of the screen’s twitching pixel, we must consider the . . . . Continue Reading »
Now that Thanksgiving weekend has passed, it’s time to get cracking! Let FT take take the pain out of Christmas shopping this year. Check out Joseph Bottum’s piece on children’s literature , John Wilson’s survey of the books of 2008 , and timeless book recommendations from . . . . Continue Reading »
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