Tonight at Fordham University was the opening session of a conference on Faith and Reason 2009 A Dialogue at the Heart of Jesuit Education The opening speaker was someone who comes as close as academia can get to a superstar and he is apparently steroid-free philosopher Charles Taylor Spea

Readers nbsp in the New York area who are interested in the dialogue between faith and reason will appreciate a conference happening this week at Fordham University s Rose Hill campus nbsp The conference includes 120 invited faculty and staff of the twelve East Coast Jesuit colleges and universiti

The Independent books section has a great interview with Malcolm Gladwell he of Blink and The Tipping Point fame in which Gladwell talks at length about any number of subjects including the future of newspaper journalism nbsp Gladwell s latest book Outliers The Story of Success offers clues

An interesting essay in Slate Magazine discusses a lawsuit that nbsp the reclusive nbsp J D Salinger is bringing against an author attempting to publish what is essentially an unauthorized sequel to Salinger rsquo s famous 1951 novel Catcher in the Rye nbsp Some snippets from the article nbsp

I know it rsquo s been a few weeks since America rsquo s centennial celebration but interested readers can go here to listen to an interview with ldquo JustLove rdquo a program on The Catholic Channel about our first century of Catholic journalism nbsp Be patient it takes some time to load

Who has the stature to bring together a crowd of talented performers so diverse as to include Bruce Springsteen Dave Matthews Joan Baez Dar Williams Emmylou Harris Kris Kristofferson Michael Franti Tom Morello Arlo Guthrie Roger McGuinn Steve Earle dozens more of the shining lights of Ame

Subscribers can read nbsp our editorial in America online here but here s a few snippets in advance The clouds roll with thunder the House of the Lord shall be built throughout the earth and these frogs sit in their marsh and croak mdash lsquo We are the only Christians rsquo rdquo So wrote

A half-century of warfare against the split infinitive the misplaced modifier the obfuscation of plain language and even the gratuitous use of a serial comma was recognized earlier this month as various media outlets celebrated the 50th anniversary of Strunk and White the venerable writing guid

From today s Los Angeles Times a story about a college student who has taped Planned Parenthood employees in various states suggesting she lie about her or her boyfriend s age after she posed as a 13-year-old seeking an abortion Journalists nbsp might note the absurd linguistic hoops the Times cop

While today we celebrate our own planetary home with Earth Day the Philadelphia Inquirer s Faye Flam nbsp reports from a nbsp meeting in England that scientists have discovered the most Earth-like world yet orbiting a star 21 light-years away nbsp Previous discoveries or inferences since de