On the Culture

February 09, 2010 12:28 PM Red Fish, Blue…er, Red Families, Blue Families By Dr. Jeff Mirus

I received a promotional flyer from Oxford University Press today on a new book entitled Red Families v. Blue Families by two law professors, Naomi Cahn and June Carbone. The book may (or may not) be brilliant, but the promotional flyer

February 08, 2010 6:39 PM The English Editions of the Documents of Vatican II By Dr. Jeff Mirus

The Second Vatican Council took place well before the era in which the Vatican Press began to issue translations of Church documents in all major languages. For this reason, the publication of the Council documents in various

On The News

February 08, 2010 11:46 AM Massachusetts & the Kennedy mystique By Phil Lawler

To appreciate the importance of what happened in the special election here in Massachusetts last month, you have to understand the extraordinary power of the Kennedy mystique, and how much it neutralized what had been a strong

February 08, 2010 9:08 AM the ad that loosed 1,000 lips By Phil Lawler

That's it? That?! Two weeks of internet obsession, and the Tim Tebow ad was over in 30 seconds. It was nice. If you were measuring public opinion with a sufficiently sensitive instrument, you might have seen the needle quiver for a

In Depth Analysis

February 05, 2010 A Catholic Writer Worth Knowing: Piers Paul Read By Dr. Jeff Mirus

Piers Paul Read is an English Catholic novelist, historian, biographer, playwright, reviewer and essayist. He lived through the 1960’s; he retained his faith and saw it deepen in response to the rise of neo-Modernism in the Church. As one of his essays notes, he was sure the Church was right even before he could bring himself to accept every aspect of her teaching. Read has a great deal useful to say about things Catholic, and it indicates a gap in my own awareness that I

In Depth Analysis

January 29, 2010 The Corrosive Society By Dr. Jeff Mirus

Modern man seems to live in a perpetual tug of war between the struggle to make money and the demand to redistribute it. In the United States, this tug of war is more or less accurately represented by two opposing political parties, the Republicans who are more focused on creating wealth, and the Democrats who are more focused on reallocating the wealth we already have. There are many other differences, of course, some more important than money, but I suspect this general

On Business

February 08, 2010 9:35 PM Tebow Commercial By Peter Mirus

Many who watched the Super Bowl this weekend saw the Focus on the Family commercial featuring Tim Tebow. Just as many didn’t. The brief commercial caught many unawares (in a couple of different ways), and people flocked to the

Off the Record

• 02/09/10 we (might) hold these truths
• 02/08/10 bridge to nowhere
• 02/05/10 proper Bostonians
• 02/05/10 credit where credit is due
• 02/04/10 it's only sinful if you don't take pleasure in it
• 02/03/10 preview of Obamacare?