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The Check Is in the Mail

Lawrence M. Mead

In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State by Charles Murray. AEI Press, 140 pages,…

George: Reply to Garnett

Robert P. George

Mirror of Justice , a website for Catholic law professors, has been the forum for some exceptionally…

Powers: Mac Donald and the Moral Legacy of Christianity

Elizabeth Powers

Heather Mac Donald’s defense of “skeptical” (i.e., atheist) conservatives against the Religious Right has by now been…

Jane Austen and Park Honan

Edward T. Oakes

I don’t have the computer skills, let alone the patience, to set up my own blogsite. So…

JB: 7.21.06 A friend emails this interesting…

Joseph Bottum

It’s hardly a breaking news story that the old mainline Protestant denominations are in trouble, both doctrinally…

RJN: 7.06.06 More people should know about…

Richard John Neuhaus

More people should know about University Faculty for Life. The proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference is…

JB: 3.07.06 For some authors…

Joseph Bottum

For some authors, it’s always personal¯history and the human condition combining to be about, mostly, them. James…

JB: 6.27.06 OK, so this weekend…

Joseph Bottum

OK, so this weekend my wife and I indulged a guilty pleasure and rented The Shoes of…

RJN: 6.15.06 Ramesh Punnuru has kicked…

Richard John Neuhaus

Ramesh Ponnuru has kicked off a very important discussion with his book The Party of Death ,…

RJN: 6.8.06 Less than a year ago…

Richard John Neuhaus

Less than a year ago, on July 7, 2005, four bombs went off in the London underground,…

Principled Immigration

Mary Ann Glendon

Not for the first time, the world finds itself in an age of great movements of peoples.…

RJN: 5.26.06 As with the pun…

Richard John Neuhaus

As with the pun, appreciation of the limerick is a cultivated taste. I’m still working on it,…

RJN: 5.18.06 Over on The…

Richard John Neuhaus

Over on The American Scene , Ross Douthat reflects on conflicting studies about the effectiveness of promoting…

JB: 5.16.06 A few years ago…

Joseph Bottum

A few years ago, when Daniel Goldhagen published A Moral Reckoning , his diatribe against all things…

RJN: 5.3.06 In last Sunday’s…

Richard John Neuhaus

In last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine , Peter Beinart continued his musings about the Democratic Party…