Tomorrow in “On the Square,” senior editor R.R. Reno will explain what is a far greater but also subtler danger to the intellectual than error.
Until then, you may want to read or check teh discussion of today’s “On the Square” article, senior editor David Goldman’s The Suppurating Mess That is Pakistan , as well as last Friday’s twin bill, Father Edward Oakes’ E.T., Phone Here and Archbishop Charles Chaput’s Fire on the Earth . Or just go to the “On the Square” Archives and start reading.
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