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Liturgy and Totalizing Politics
In his Political Worship, Bernd Wannenwetsch observes that “Worship again and again interrupts the course of the…
What We’ve Been Reading—9.9.16
Mark Bauerlein It is a common thesis that the social/sexual changes of recent years are the flowering…
Trigger Warning!
In this episode of the First Things Podcast: Phyllis Schlafly died this week. What made this Midwestern…
Campus Moralism, Old and New
As a new academic year begins, universities are redoubling their efforts to keep the peace in higher…
Mother Teresa’s Inspiration Day and Ours
St. Teresa of Kolkata was canonized on September 4; her feast day came one day later. Mother…
Learning Like a Tudor
Scott Newstok urges students to learn like Shakespeare in a convocation address at Rhodes College. That means…
Weavers and Ships
Hippolytus doesn’t convince with his interpretation of prophecy in On Christ and AntiChrist, but along the way…
The Big Story
In a 2005 interview with the Paris Review, Australian poet Les Murray describes his family’s religious background,…
The Task of Theology
T.A. Noble (Holy Trinity, Holy People, 7) says this about the role of the Bible in theology…
Uncaused Events
It’s been a metaphysical dogma for philosophers from Scholastics to Cartesians that an effect cannot be greater…
Liberal totalitarianism
In a brilliant 2013 article in Communio, D.C. Schindler examines the “totalitarian logic of self-limitation” within liberal…
Two Churches
John Bale, bishop of Ossory from 1495 to 1563, was a polemicist and historian, author of the…
The Limits of Subsidiarity
D.C. Schindler (Communio, 2013, 600-1) argues that the Catholic appeal to subsidiarity isn’t adequate on its own…
Liberalism’s Immodesty
Liberal polities claim to lack competency in religious matters, and so they leave them to private choice.…
Who Are the Campus Custodians?
Last year’s student protests were deplored and ridiculed by off-campus commentators across the political spectrum (see this…
