Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile by nassim nicholas taleb random house, 1,568 pages, $70 Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by nassim nicholas taleb random house, 304 pages, $30 Boethius’s ambitious goal to synthesize all . . . . Continue Reading »
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World by christopher de hamel penguin, 640 pages, $45 Illuminated manuscripts remain cultural touchstones of the Middle Ages, symbols of forgotten learning, mystery, and beauty. Unfortunately, they are often locked away in . . . . Continue Reading »
When Eleanor Roosevelt and a small group of people gathered at the behest of the U.N. in early 1947 to draft the world’s first “international bill of rights,” they cannot have had very high hopes for their endeavor. The world was awash in colonial oppression, discrimination, poverty, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Europe is coming apart at the seams, but not in the ways the E.U. intellectuals divine. Continue Reading »
Standing up for the mob’s victims should be on the Church’s agenda for the justice of all people, especially when its victims are her own children. Continue Reading »
Peter Steinfels has done the Catholic Church a tremendous service by telling some disturbing truths about the August 2018 Pennsylvania grand jury report. Continue Reading »
Cuomo, through his murderous support for abortion legislation, coupled with his consistent invocation of his own Catholic identity, has crossed over from private failing to public witness against the faith. Continue Reading »
Condemnations of Bishop George Bell served the purpose of a Church trying hard to look decisive and stern about priestly abuse—a problem it has in fact handled very badly. Continue Reading »
Our globalist liberal elites are no longer fit to govern. They are decadent and out-of-touch. Continue Reading »
Bishop Foys and Archbishop Joseph Kurtz lived out our elite’s moral ideal by condemning their own children in the interest of self-realization and social order. Continue Reading »
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