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The Neuhaus Legacy
Neuhaus, public intellectual? Yesterday, CBC radio ran a long segment on the legacy of Richard John Neuhaus.…
The first E-pistle of @SaulofTarsus to his Followers on Instagram
Dear brothers and hipsters, I, @SaulofTarsus, mimetically writing to you from my iPhone, do exhort you to…
First Links—5.6.15
The Conference Manifesto Christy Wampole, The New York Times On Fraternities and Manliness Emily Esfahani Smith, The New…
Apotheosis of Consumerism
Though the presence of Christ has been central to Eucharistic theology, Thomas O’Loughlin (The Eucharist) argues that…
Victorian Forgiveness
Early in his Forgiveness in Victorian Literature, Richard Gibson quotes Sarah Beckwith’s observation that “promising and forgiving [are]…
Jane Austen’s Names
Margaret Doody’s Jane Austen’s Names is a treasure chest. On the assumption that “an artist cannot do anything…
John Paul II and “America”
In the years preceding the Great Jubilee of 2000, John Paul II held a series of continental…
An Exercise in Begging the Question
The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom by michael shermer …
Protest and Survive, But How?
As the revolution in the understanding of human identity and its concomitant reordering of the hierarchy of…
First Links — 5.5.15
Synod. The Proposal of a “Third Way” Sandro Magister, Chiesa Pope Francis, Tony Palmer, an iPhone &…
Nature and Equality
Norberto Bobbio (Left and Right) claims that left and right are different because of their different evaluations…
Difference Principle
John Rawls’s notion of “difference principle” is an alternative to a meritocratic regime, but it is also…
Alienating Equality
In a 1987 essay on equality as a moral ideal, Harry Frankfurt notes that setting up equality of…
Rosenstock and Hegel
Almost no one knows the name of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. That is unfortunate, but may be changing as…
Gay Marriage and Biopolitical Tyranny
In a 2013 essay evaluating the Parliamentary bill on gay marriage, John Milbank observes that British “legislators have…
