"Newman's Liberal Problem" An interesting essay by Edward T. Oakes in First Things, April 2003: .... No student of Newman can avoid the fact of his many conversions. He changed....

On "Diversity" and "Affirmative Action" Is the University of Michigan really trying to pull a fast one on the public and the court? Two articles appeared this week on the....

Another Step Towards Legalizing Pedophilia A little more than a year ago, I wrote the following in a column about "academic" "freedom" on US college campuses: .... If you haven’t....

"This Is Your Brain On The Web" Isn't that clever? That's what it says on that lovely page that Blog*Spot shows when it can't find a requested webpage. "This is....

Sen. Snake in the Grass is a Partisan Hypocrite What a big surprise. Jennifer G. Hickey writes about Senate filibusters, among other things, at Insight, May 12: .... Despite recently....

"Deep Dishonesty at the N.Y. Times" Hugh Hewitt writing at WND, Wednesday, notes that nobody at NYT has resigned, and nobody has been fired, over the JBB: The deep dishonesty....

"Misfiring at 'Top Gun'" Would it be too rude of me to ask if this editorial would have run in WaPo if the old lady, now deceased, were still running....

"Editor of Times Tells Staff He Accepts Blame for Fraud" To which I say "Baloney". Have a look: The executive editor of The New York Times told a town-hall-style meeting....

"The Disciplines of Journalism" A wise and honest column on the Jayson Blair Brouhaha, by Don Wycliff in today's Chicago Tribune: .... How could this have happened? How could the....

Ann Coulter Tosses a Handful of Grenades Towards NYT "Blair's record of inaccuracies, lies and distortions made him a candidate for either immediate dismissal or his own regular column on....

The US Senate Must Be An... Interesting... Place Vide. There are many disturbing aspects to that account. But you know what gets me the most: that so many senators now....

"Diversity", Race, and Religion Bryan Preston writes a striking blog today: Isn't Diversity! a grand thing? In the past, right thinkers exorted us to look past skin color to understand....

"Journalism's Believability Crisis" A disquieting blog from Susanna Cornett yesterday: Most of you have likely read the New York Times article on Sunday that outlined all of Jayson Blair's transgressions,....

More Articles on the Senate Filibuster Situation Another article from Terry Eastland in The Weekly Standard (reprinted from The Dallas Morning News), Tuesday: .... With the Democrats losing the Senate....

"Weblogs Will Save The World" See this thought-provoking blog with the provocative title, by Eric Janssen at webraw: .... Blogs have made the creation and publication of content as simple....

Happy First Blogiversary to Ad Orientem Congratulations to Mark C. N. Sullivan.

"A Hate Much Loved and Lied About" Michael Pakenham (not a Catholic) reviews the new book by Philip Jenkins (a former Catholic), The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice: Is....

"In Blogs We Trust" An interesting blog by Donald Luskin, Monday, about the emerging role of the Blogosphere: .... Of course anything that's wrong with the mainstream media -- bias,....

Laugh Out Loud Go and check out what The Mighty One came up with when he imagined the AWOL Texas Democrats working at McDonald's. (If archive isn't working, see The....

"Diversity's Stigma" An intelligent column by Jason Riley in today's OpinionJournal, on the Jayson Blair Brouhaha and institutionalized racism affirmative action: .... Somewhere in between the passage of the 1964....

Neil Cavuto Smacks Paul Krugman Upside the Head Paul Krugman wrote something or other in yesterday's NYT. He mentioned FNC's Neil Cavuto: .... Meanwhile, both the formal rules and the....

I, Too, Want to Know Where They Are Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, that is. I'm with Mark Shea, except that I think he overstates the case for WMD....

Who's More Numerous: Left-Wing Psychotics or Right-Wing Psychotics? Seeing how many leftist writers are being driven beyond rationality by George W. Bush, I think my question is quite a good....

Noam Hypocrisky "The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky" An informative and disturbing article by Keith Windschuttle in the current issue of New Criterion: Noam Chomsky was the most conspicuous American intellectual....

"You Can't Judge These Books by Their Covers" An eye-opening column by Diane Ravitch in yesterday's Los Angeles Times: Fifteen years ago, I helped write the guidelines for teaching history....

If They Don't Get It By Now, It's Way Too Late Vide. (Thanks, Ryan.)

"Filibuster Again! And Again!" Terry Eastland writes an editorial in The Weekly Standard, dated May 19: Six times now Senate Democrats have blocked a vote on Miguel Estrada's nomination to....

Potemkin Boston An incisive analysis from Fr. Rob Johansen at Thrown Back, yesterday: .... A recent poll in the Boston Globe reveals that many, if not most, self-professed Catholics in....

Partha Mazumdar vs. John Leo Guess who won? John Leo has a fine column in the US News & World Report, dated May 19, concerning the Jayson Blair brouhaha: The....

"Builders and Defenders" A thought-provoking article by Michael Totten at OpinionJournal today, which made a splash in the Blogosphere recently when it appeared on his blog. I'm not sure I....

Times' Editors and Church's Bishops I was just starting to think about this myself, when I came across Patrick Sweeney's blog: Let me be the first to say there's a....

"The Real Scandal of Iraqi Relief" Thanks to Margaret for calling to my attention another article from Jonathan Foreman in Baghdad, this one in the New York Post yesterday: They....

Barbara Amiel vs. Margaret Drabble In reply to Margaret Drabble's anti-American bilge last week, the London Telegraph runs a column by Barbara Amiel today: Margaret Drabble went haywire on these....

I Still Want To Know How many other made-up stories has the New York Times published? If you have a couple of spare days, read the New York Time's 7,000-word....

"For Whom; the Spam Tolls" Thanks to the bloggers who wrote e-mails of consolation and sympathy concerning spam. I see we are not alone.

Gerard Manley Hopkins: Spring May 1877 Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—    When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;    Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush....

The Fourth Sunday of Easter Easter sermons by Ven. John Henry Newman. At Newman Reader: Judaism of the Present Day The Fellowship of the Apostles The Gospel Feast Love of....