R. R. Reno

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Last month I wrote extensively in the Public Square about Charles Murray’s important new book, Coming Apart , an analysis of the striking gap between the top of American society (Belmont) and the bottom (Fishtown). In yesterday’s New York Times Murray answers critics who charge that he . . . . Continue Reading »

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In a searching reflection on the justice of preemptive military strikes designed to prevent Iran from gaining the use of nuclear weapons, Robert Koons embarks on a line of reasoning not altogether persuasive. He works his way through the criteria for a just war, and when he comes to “last . . . . Continue Reading »

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Our ongoing work on the web and in First Things magazine assures that your religious ideals and convictions have a voice in the public square. To do that well we need your support. Please click and donate . . . . . Continue Reading »

Our ongoing work on the web and in First Things magazine assures that your religious ideals and convictions have a voice in the public square. To do that well we need your support. Please click and donate . . . . . Continue Reading »

The Journal of Medical Ethics recently published are article justifying the killing of newborn infants, ” After-birth abortion: why should the baby live? ” Here is the abstract: Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus’ health. . . . . Continue Reading »

In an important new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010, Charles Murray observes that America has become increasingly divided. Once largely united by a common middle-class culture, we’re now trending in different directions, one up and toward a new elite class, the other . . . . Continue Reading »

The Huffington Post featured a particularly ugly screed by Frank Schaeffer. He claims to be providing a service to the Republic by exposing “the loony Reconstructionist/Theonomist” agenda of people like Robert George and Richard John Neuhaus. Schaeffer is a great exaggerator, what . . . . Continue Reading »