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To Parents: Keep Reading Out Loud
Everybody knows how important it is to read to toddlers. Apart from the emotional element, reading out…
Breed Like Rabbits
Catholics should not be like rabbits, Pope Francis stated in a recent papal interview. The comment is…
The Unutterable Indecency of Dhimmitude
In “The Hobby Lobby Moment,” an excellent article in the latest Harvard Law Review, Paul Horwitz analyses…
More From Pope Francis on Charlie Hebdo
On a plane home from the Philippines yesterday, Pope Francis clarified remarks he made last week, on…
First Links—1.20.15
To the Office, with Love Jennifer Senior, New York Magazine Imperfect Tenderness Tim Hodler, The Comics Journal…
Empty Ideas
The TLS reviewer of Peter Unger’s Empty Ideas is not much impressed with Unger’s critique of analytic philosophy.…
Revelatory Liturgy
Philip Caldwell’s Liturgy As Revelation is a successful book on several levels. Caldwell fills out recent accounts of…
Poe-etic Justice
In an essay on Poe in NYRB, Marilynne Robinson observes that “the horror that fascinated [Poe] and gave…
What God Hates
Proverbs 6:16-20 lists seven things that God finds abominable and hateful. It’s a rich text. For starters,…
Orion and Modern Man
One evening in the dead of winter, I went on a walk. I was on a break…
First Links—1.19.15
Orality, Literacy, and the Memorized Poem Mike Chasar, Poetry Magazine Making Christianity Weird Again Rod Dreher, The…
The Impassible God of the Bible
Last week I published my January web column for First Things on some recent scholarly discussion of…
Miniaturism
The TLS review of the two-volume collection of The Poetry of Robert Herrick (edited by Tom Cain and…
The Scotus Story
John Milbank has written that John Duns Scotus is “the turning point in the destiny of the…
American Difference
President Obama wants European countries to do a better job of assimilating Muslims. Easy for an American…
