Donald T. Critchlow is the Barry Goldwater Chair of American Institutions at Arizona State University, editor of the Journal of Policy History and general editor for Cambridge Essential Histories (CUP). His new book, Takeover: How […]
So writes Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, in a recent WSJ piece. Carr writes: Half a decade into the e-book revolution, though, the prognosis for traditional […]
A Most Puzzling Puzzler I invite the reader to think through an interesting and very serious conundrum. Many of us are rightly alarmed at ever-bolder attempts by our increasingly secular state to violate the religious […]
From the Associated Press comes this bit of literary news: A new Dan Brown novel is coming in May, and the subject is Dante. Doubleday announced Tuesday that Brown’s book is called “Inferno,” named for Dante’s epic journey […]
Very relevant. And each time I spend a few minutes reading from, say, the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, I find plenty of material directly applicable to current events. For example: […]
Of all the documents produced by the Second Vatican Council, none had more revisions, saw more debate, or garnered more controversy than the “Declaration on Religious Liberty” Dignitatis Humanae. This is in part because the […]
Robert Oscar Lopez reports, on the Public Discourse site, on an unlikely (from an American perspective) alliance in France in support of marriage: France offers activists an example of a country that can question gay rhetoric […]
“Jesus’ teaching is not the product of human learning, of whatever kind. It originated from immediate contact with the Father, from ‘face-to-face’ dialogue—from the one who rests close to the Father’s heart. It is the […]
Rome. The positive effects of the recent XIII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on “the New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith” (Oct. 7-28, 2012) should be seen and experienced […]
A fascinating and inspiring story, as reported by the New York Times: The rebirth of a medieval Cistercian monastery building here on a patch of rural Northern California land was, of course, improbable. William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper […]
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