Can I gloat?
March 2010
The hidden connection between our two academic orthodoxies – post-modernism and scientific research.
If your religion–or at least your concept of the moral norms of the civil order–lacks a notion of grace, it therefore also lacks a notion of gifts; all it can say is that some people are lucky, not that some people are blessed.
Krustianity has fully accommodated itself to the age of entertainment
“Four Verse Letters” has just appeared from the Franciscan University at Steubenville Press.
But how can such plural sovereignty be realised under the circumstances of this century? Who will guard the guardians, so to speak? How will the stones of the arch fit together?
George A. Panichas, literary critic and longtime editor of Modern Age, has died at the age of 79.
USDA regulations strangle the local meat market.
Bush’s strong effort to restore the freedom of the church took the political side of this freedom for the whole meaning of the tradition. At the same time, his supply-side policies benefiting the wealthiest Americans could not have been more antithetical to the social-pluralist vision that inspired his faith-based initiative.
Since the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) has been discussed on this site by Jerry Salyer and Susan McWilliams, I want to mention that last month the program (after a $120+ million investment) was pulled by the USDA. It has been…
Video of Blond’s March 22nd talk at Villanova is now available online.
No fan of Frum am I, but this is disturbing. The AEI has fired him for deviations from the Party Line.…
According to David Rieff, FPR occupies an honorable space on the right side of the American commentariat spectrum, in that many of our writers (1) are willing to admit the reality of American decline, and (2) do not reflexively blame…
Our health care “debate.”
The future of education.
A friend sent me the other day two issues of a little journal called The Publican of Philadelphia. Since I am forever worried that the Porch’s ongoing what-to-do conversation gravitates a bit too inexorably toward strictly political/economic discussions, I’d like…
