1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (198+ words) When I arrived at MIT, I was among the indifferent passersby. After three years here, I'm not so sure. But I've seen new sensibilities quietly assert themselves on campus. I, and other students, have come to regard the old intellectual…...

2+ day, 54+ min ago  (130+ words) In this sense, the modern demand for a "one-world" state that promises safety from technological or geopolitical threats can be read as envy's political form'a desire to neutralize the rival by absorbing all difference into a single, controlling authority. It…...

5+ day, 54+ min ago  (166+ words) The amicus brief attempts to construct an argument: Persons have a fundamental need to be part of a community; any modification or restriction of birthright citizenship deprives a newborn child of that fundamental need; ergo, such measures violate human dignity....

6+ day, 54+ min ago  (295+ words) The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West by amitav acharyabasic books, 464 pages, $32. 50 G K. Chesterton's novel The Flying Inn begins with a strange seaside encounter involving one Misysra Ammon, a "little owlish…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (136+ words) First, we are educating for a national need. All of our students will graduate with certification in plumbing, electrical work, carpentry, or HVAC. There is broad agreement that there is a need for workers with these skills. We are working…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (129+ words) First Things The sober conclusion we should draw is that "they" are still coming to "trans" your kids, not so much in terms of their sex (although that fight is not yet over) but at the much deeper level: that…...

1+ week, 54+ min ago  (98+ words) The Oxford Handbook of Joseph Ratzinger edited by tracey rowland and francesca aran murphyoxford university, 416 pages, $195 Image by Marek. 69 (original) / Rundvald (retouches), licensed via Creative Commons. Image cropped. Sam Zeno Conedera, S. J. , is "assistant professor of history at Saint Louis "University....

1+ week, 53+ min ago  (299+ words) Pardon the Latin-rooted neologism, but if "patricide" works for murdering your father and "regicide" for taking out a king, why not "ecclesiacide" for trying to kill an entire Church? Yet we now know for certain, and from primary source material…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago  (276+ words) Similarly, St. Alphonsus Liguori, another Doctor of the Church and the prince of moral theologians, teaches: "There is no doubt that since war generally brings in its train so many evils and so much harm to religion, to innocent people,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (280+ words) Trump told reporters that the problem was concentrated in blue states and "heavily, heavily, heavily Democrat." But the decisions that enabled the Dar Al-Farooq fraud, made over the course of decades, were bipartisan. The scandal reflects not only on Democratic…...