Edward J. Oakes, S.J. takes stock of the ‘new’ atheists: In the ancient world, Epicurus scored belief in the gods for its fear-mongering; in the modern world, Enlightened and Marxist philosophers attacked religious belief for the opposite failing: for its attempt to extinguish an accessible and realizable happiness in the “real” world in favor of… Continue reading

Ryan T. Anderson reminds me that today is the memorial day for St. Thomas Aquinas, my favorite philosopher.

Peggy Noonan pretty much gets the diagnosis right: On the pundit civil wars, Rush Limbaugh declared on the radio this week, “I’m here to tell you, if either of these two guys [Mr. McCain or Mike Huckabee] get the nomination, it’s going to destroy the Republican Party. It’s going to change it forever, be the… Continue reading

Friday dose of Krauthammer: It profits a man nothing to sell his soul for the whole world. But for 4 percent of the Nevada caucuses?

Rats. I knew I should never have burned all my teenage, angst-ridden diaries.