https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cMYfxOFBBM Because of certain events, we interrupt the regularly scheduled broadcast (Summa Contra Gentiles) to bring you news of the latest in the civil war in the once United States…

Golly, we seem to be doing a lot of this we-interrupt-this broadcast type of posts lately. Perhaps that 'climate of violence' business we've been hearing from the media is real…

Editor's note: this is a three-part post, running one per week. I watched one of my favorite movies recently: Sgt. York. I always loved this movie, even better than that…

Why are Atheists Generally Smarter Than Religious People? Couple of academics just asked the question, "Why is Intelligence Negatively Associated with Religiousness?" "The answer", one report says, "is that religion…

A friend of mine, an aficionado and collector of modern art, brought me to the Whitney Museum in the Meatpacking District. I had been to the iconic flowerpot structure of…

About my pewsitting youth, I do not recall much. When young, I was too busy snapping the hat holders on the pew backs. While a teen, my acts of rebellion…

Except to note that our Summa Contra Gentiles series is preempted this week, I'll stay out of this. I'd hate to be accused of being mean to throat cutters. What…