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Low. Lower. And so low—in terms of both argument and insinuation—you wonder what forgotten basement of unreality these people are living in. In this case, the cyber pages of The Daily Star (Lebanon): The pope’s […]

It’s a Saturday, and Mr. James Lott is seated in his favorite chair in the living room, reading the newspaper, or pretending to read it.  His eyes scan the page, he knits his brows, he […]

So writes Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, in a recent WSJ piece. Carr writes: Half a decade into the e-book revolution, though, the prognosis for traditional […]

From the Associated Press comes this bit of literary news: A new Dan Brown novel is coming in May, and the subject is Dante. Doubleday announced Tuesday that Brown’s book is called “Inferno,” named for Dante’s epic journey […]

Very relevant. And each time I spend a few minutes reading from, say, the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, I find plenty of material directly applicable to current events. For example:   […]

Robert Oscar Lopez reports, on the Public Discourse site, on an unlikely (from an American perspective) alliance in France in support of marriage: France offers activists an example of a country that can question gay rhetoric […]

A fascinating and inspiring story, as reported by the New York Times: The rebirth of a medieval Cistercian monastery building here on a patch of rural Northern California land was, of course, improbable. William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper […]