Matthew Schmitz

You have to love the caution with which academics, forced by data, endorse stereotypes: It is believed that men, in contrast to women, are more likely to cognitively separate sex from love (Banfield & McCabe, 2001; Duncombe & Marsden, 1999), and though investigators disagree as to the . . . . Continue Reading »

Writing for the Washington Post , Matt Franck steps back from today’s ruling and asks how Christians should respond: Although the Supreme Court has upheld President Obama’s signature health care law, we are bound in this election year to have a renewed conversation on what the federal . . . . Continue Reading »

John Roberts joins the Supreme Court’s liberal wing to uphold the health care law . Had the court struck down all or part of the law, there would have been massive political blowback from the media, Congress, and the White House itself. The Court, of course, is not just a judicial body but . . . . Continue Reading »

On Friday, I offered a question for David Blankenhorn in response to his dropping his opposition to same-sex marriage. Today in  Public Discourse , Maggie Gallagher, Blankenhorn’s friend (and former employee), writes a moving personal piece about the Blankenhorn’s decision and the . . . . Continue Reading »

David Blankenhorn hasn’t changed his mind about marriage, but he has changed his stance. The best that one can say of the New York Times   op-ed in which he shifts his footing is that it is clearly heartfelt. But it raises many questions, not least being how Blankenhorn can . . . . Continue Reading »

Tom Berg, who sits on DFL’s board, quotes their statement at  Mirror of Justice : The definition, unprecedented in federal law in its narrowness, fails to give equal respect to the activities of service, mercy, and justice that lie at the core of religious practice for many faiths.  . . . . Continue Reading »

People will not welcome Emily Yoffe’s allegation in Slate   that Fr. Robert Drinan, the congressman-priest who became the spiritual father of pro-choice Catholicism, once assaulted her: Several years earlier, my family had worked for the election of our congressman,  Father Robert . . . . Continue Reading »

Whatever the merits of the argument for same-sex marriage (and I think they are meager indeed, resulting from a simple misunderstanding of what marriage is and how necessary it is for living a good and full life), its advocates don’t think they can be appreciated at a popular level. Hence the . . . . Continue Reading »

In a new e-book , Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York writes against those who have offered legal justifications for the torture of prisoners: In only the last few years we’ve experienced rampant disregard for religious beliefs in this country with the approval of embryonic stem cell research; . . . . Continue Reading »

Earlier this month, we learned that the University of Virginia’s board of visitors had forced out President Teresa Sullivan for lacking “strategic dynamism” due to her refusal to run the university like a business (including mothballing “obscure” academic programs like . . . . Continue Reading »