Even some liberals wonder what Obama's been thinking with this HHS contraception mandate. So I'll lay it out simply. When a churc...

You read that right. According to William E. Carroll —a Catholic philosopher currently ensconced as a good old Fellow at Blackfriars, Oxford...

Yes, it feels like a so-bad-it's-good Chuck Norris movie. At the climax  of yet another such flick, the words of the steely-eyed her...

As I waded this morning through my overwhelming social-network streams—all of which now integrate into my single Google+ stream—I managed...

Apologies to my vast readership for the weeks of silence. At the beginning of September, I moved from NYC for a new full-time teaching job i...

Gnosticism is a perennial impulse. I don't mean all the mythic confabulations that the bewildering variety of Gnostic sects spun during ...

Almost every American past puberty knows the old Wendy's hamburger slogan: "Where's the beef?" Used as a metaphor, it summ...

Perhaps I'm weird, but I must admit that, even when I was alienated from the Catholic Church in youth, I never had any principled diffic...

See my post at the First Things  blog "First Thoughts."     A lot more can and should be said, but as a response to Steve Hutchen...

As promised, I have deleted my lengthy post of February 1, "Which contest is worth pissing in?". I did so in order to respect the ...

From the current issue of First Things: In our day, ideological minorities seeking refuge in the protections of the Constitution frequently ...

Most literate folk are familiar with the Yin-Yang symbol. I don't want to get into a discussion of what Yin and Yang really are, or are ...

The title of this post is a link to an interview with Prof. Arthur C. Brooks, author of Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compass...

Last weekend, Dr. Scott Carson posted on the most recent updates from the battlefield. Usefully, he points us to a few solid refutations of...

Some Americans know, and all should know, something said by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: "Congress shall make no law r...