Letter to the Editor: January-February 2013

The Maine Event... An Unmitigated Defeat... Herstory Is History... Quality Overlooked... Code for Stinginess... Let's Protect Our Own... Like Water on the Wood... Can I Get a Witness?... Out of the Shadows... An End to Our Wandering... Ironic, Moronic & Offensive

The News You May Have Missed

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A More Imperfect Bible?... From Stockboy to Stockholder... Weiner Ban... Fly Me to the Moon... Practice Makes Perfect?... The New Underground Music Scene... Super Santa... The Slapper... Your 2012 Word of the Year

New Oxford Notes: January-February 2013

Dispatch from the Lunatic Fringe... Hollow Theology... Sexual Sanity on the Dark Continent

Bumping Off Baby

ARE WE ROMANIZING?

Andrew M. Seddon

During the days when the Romans ruled the known world, only a few peculiar groups kept and raised all their children. Have times changed much?

Why Study Philosophy?

WHAT IS THOMISM & WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Thomas Storck

It allows us to understand reality, to know the truth, and, moreover, to see that the truth is of the utmost importance not only for the life of the Church but for the world.

The Invalid Identification of Contraries With Contradictories

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #32

Donald DeMarco

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's magnum opus, might be the most perplexing and infuriating novel ever written.

The Riddle of Man's Dualistic Nature

THE MARRIAGE OF BODY & SOUL

Alice von Hildebrand

How can a body and a soul possibly be harmoniously united? This is a great mystery. Yet the answer is simple: God willed it to be so.

The Obedient Toddler & the Rebellious Teen

ON THE FORMS OF MORAL IMMATURITY

Rob Agnelli

Many Catholics hold a false conception of conscience born of two kinds of moral immaturity that assume there is a chasm between freedom and authority.

Hell as the Atheist Heaven

GUEST COLUMN

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Note what happens to those who refuse to worship their Creator: their minds grow dark and senseless — that is to say, they talk nonsense and don't realize it.

Can the Human Mind Explain Itself?

Terry Scambray

The mind-body conundrum is a perennial issue that thinkers have puzzled over since long before the 17th century.

Briefly: January-February 2012

A Year of Biblical Womanhood... Will Many Be Saved?: What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization... The Future of History