First Links — 3.12.12

Remembering Shahbaz Bhatti
Anto Akkara, National Catholic Register

Saving Happiness from Politics
Marc De Vos,  National Affairs

New York Times Advertisement’s Gutter Rhetoric
John Leo, Daily Beast

The Rule of God & The Whims of History
Mark Noll, Patheos

Adam Smith vs. Crony Capitalism
Sheldon Richman , Reason

Five Foreign Films About Faith
The Way of Beauty Blog

Next
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

The Revival of Patristics

Stephen O. Presley

On May 25, 1990, the renowned patristics scholar Charles Kannengiesser, S.J., delivered a lecture at the annual…

The Enduring Legacy of the Spanish Mystics

Itxu Díaz

Last autumn, I spent a few days at my family’s coastal country house in northwestern Spain. The…

The trouble with blogging …

Joseph Bottum

The trouble with blogging, RJN, is narrative structure. Or maybe voice. Or maybe diction. Or maybe syntax.…