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How Muslims Should Respond to Blasphemy
Ahmed Marabet, a Muslim police officer killed in the attack on Charlie Hebdo, was caught in the…
Merrie Melodies and Magisterial Authority
For reasons I cannot fathom, Michael Winters of the National Catholic Reporter seems determined to cast himself as the…
On College Football (and Blaming ESPN)
The season ends in a few days, the first year of a playoff, and TV ratings will…
First Links—1.9.15
Embracing the Future with Hope Br. Innocent Smith, O.P., Dominicana Three Poems Bryce Taylor, Kenotic Verse Edward…
War of Indefinites
In his recent Zero to One, Peter Thiel sets out a neat typology of philosophy, politics, and cultural…
God Is One
Timothy Carson thinks the number one is a “giddy” number, “delighted in its unity, ecstatic about its…
Managers, Therapists, and Saving Democracy
In the fourth chapter of The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, George Marsden discusses the problem of authority…
Criticizing Pope Francis
I’ve lost count of the emails from readers and friends upset by Maureen Mullarkey’s sharply worded posting on…
First Links—1.8.15
Cartoonists Around the World Respond to Paris Attack Editors, Haaretz Persecution of Christians Reached Historic Levels in…
Wisdom of Solomon
The opening verses of Proverbs describe the aims of wisdom, its purposes and gifts. The same verses…
Paying Pastors
Paul reminds the Corinthians that those who served the altar shared in the proceeds of the altar,…
My Life With Charlie Hebdo
As a student at the Sorbonne in my early twenties, back in the mid 1990s, every Wednesday…
Upcoming Events — 01.07.15
New York Ango-Catholic Modernism: Writing Religious Beauty in the Modern Era Saturday, January 17The Thomistic Institute is…
If There’s No God, Are Humans Equal?
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by danielle allen liveright,…
Egypt’s President Visits Copts on Christmas Eve
On Monday, I posted about a speech Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, recently gave at Al Azhar…
