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RJN: 4.12.06 Moving to less controversial topics…
Moving to less controversial topics, George Will had a thoughtful column Sunday before last on new efforts…
To Be a Christian College
In 1877 some concerned citizens of Wheaton, Illinois, decided that they needed to do something about the…
JB: 3.8.06 Euthanasia has been making…
Euthanasia has been making a comeback in recent months, bubbling up again and again in little snippets…
RJN 2.8.06 There are many things
There are many things that need to be said about the Muslim reaction to those cartoons in…
Briefly Noted 2
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. By Anne Rice. Knopf. 321 pp. $25.95. Appalling. That’s the word…
JB 1:30.06 For the last year…
For the last year, the marvelous John Rose and Mary Angelita Ruiz have been our Junior Fellows…
RJN 1.13.05 The Roe decision…
The Roe decision of 1973, wrote Yale’s legendary law professor, John Hart Ely, “is not constitutional law…
JB 1.07.06 Milton Himmelfarb…
Milton Himmelfarb passed away this week in his eighty-eighth year. A contributor to F IRST T HINGS…
JB: 1.09.06 This weekend…
This weekend, the Wall Street Journal ran an interesting story about Joshua Hochschild, an assistant professor of…
RJN 1.05.06 “The Christ-haunted…
“The Christ-haunted South.” Flannery O’Connor’s phrase came to mind, said a friend, upon reading this report from…
WM: 1.04.06 The Chronicle of…
The Chronicle of Higher Education, being the trade journal of higher education, is one of those publications…
RJN: 12.15.05 Over on Catholic…
Over on Catholic World News, there is this fellow who calls himself Diogenes, aka Uncle Di. He…
Scientific Orthodoxies
Back in the 1970s, when my wife Celeste was in the seventh grade at Our Lady of…
RJN: 11.29.05 In the Washington…
In the Washington Post ( November 18 ), Michael Kinsley returns to the complexity of abortion politics.…
RJN: 11.16.05 The New York…
The New York Times regularly serves up a target-rich supply of news and commentary and, as with…
