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October 2018

October 27, 2018

Antisemitism: the stupidest prejudice

It's Saturday, midafternoon, and the latest reports are that the shooter at the Tree of...

October 26, 2018

6 Super-Scary Halloween Costumes for the Political/Policy Nerd

As you know, readers, when I'm not blogging here, I'm writing at Forbes.com. My latest...

October 25, 2018

In which I vent again

"Millennials are awful and they never volunteer and they think travel sports is more important...

October 23, 2018

Fighting Climate Change “like we fought the Nazis”?

How do we fight climate change? My money's on carbon capture (though I know there's...

October 21, 2018

A housekeeping update to readers

I'm afraid I owe my readers an apology, so: I'm sorry. Here's why: I've never...

October 19, 2018

What about Jamal Khashoggi?

What should we make of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist-activist? Here are...

October 16, 2018

Coming soon to TV commercials: drug prices?

In the news today (in this case, via AP): "US wants drug prices in TV...

October 13, 2018

Limp wrists and coddled minds

So I'm in the middle of reading The Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg...

October 12, 2018

Synod update – well, actually, not so much

So here's the deal: when the Synod of Bishops first started, I had expected that...

October 10, 2018

“Divinely Renovating” the Catholic Church – the catch!

I previously wrote about the first half of the book Divine Renovation by Fr. James...

October 08, 2018

What does it mean to “Divinely Renovate” the liturgy?

A bit of context: last week, the Archdiocese of Chicago hosted a "summit" for all...

October 07, 2018

No, you can’t change the 2-Senators-per-state Constitutional provision

Here's an, er, interesting outcome of yesterday's Kavanaugh confirmation vote: liberals are, at least on...

October 03, 2018

What to do in a “none of the above” election

Two items in the news today: first, a report that, whaddayaknow, Rauner's ad about Pritzker's...

October 02, 2018

Why is the Kavanaugh nomination tearing us apart?

Yes, I know, the answer is, "because it's exposing how evil the Other Side is."...

September 2018

September 30, 2018

Kavanaugh, Ford, and Things That Can Both Be True

With apologies for the lack of citations, here is a list of things that can...

September 28, 2018

Pot, qat, and normalization

First, some marijuana-use statistics, from a 2017 Marist poll, as featured originally in a Washington...

September 26, 2018

The Pope, the cardinal, the twitter feed

Three items from my twitter feed. Item 1: the Pope. On CNN the other day,...

September 24, 2018

“If the math doesn’t fit, you must . . . “: a few more words on Kavanaugh/Ford

Over the weekend, we had a new report, that the last person at the party...

September 22, 2018

What’s the purpose of Christianity? On (skeptically) reading Spong

It's a quiet weekend so I pulled out a book I had picked up at...

September 22, 2018

Do you understand the Synod on Youth?

It's the fifteenth Ordinary General Synod of Bishops since these began post-Vatican II, and it...

September 21, 2018

MeToo-ism and the Kavanaugh accusation

So the Kavanaugh assault accusation story got a bit stranger today, as his accuser has...

September 21, 2018

Motor voter and the perils of DMV incompetence

In the Tribune today, "Illinois priest nearing citizenship now faces deportation. Because he mistakenly voted." ...

September 16, 2018

The Kavanaugh sexual assault allegation: when we can’t know the truth

The accuser of Brett Kavanaugh now has a name: Christine Blasey Ford. And the details,...

September 14, 2018

Bad news from China – and the Vatican

From the Wall Street Journal: "China and Vatican to Sign Landmark Deal Over Bishops." This...

September 13, 2018

“Lord, to whom shall we go?” and the Catholic Cover-up Crisis

Before I get to the most recent of the Catholic Cover-up Crisis news (because, again,...

September 11, 2018

Some Cover-up Crisis links

Because it's not really a "sex abuse crisis" - it's the cover-up which matters much...

September 10, 2018

What the Pope and Trump (may) have in common

It strikes me that defenses of Catholicism such as which came across my twitter feed,...

September 08, 2018

A few bits of family and personal update

So here I am, three months into my "freelancing" venture, though, to be sure, I...

September 04, 2018

In which Cupich is an *** — and a clericalist

Last week, I wrote that Cardinal Cupich was taking the satirical Babylon Bee as an...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

What does Fr. Martin believe?

Fr. James Martin, as many readers will know, is a Jesuit priest best known for...

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