Posts tagged "jack downey"
The Icewoman Cometh: Fordham’s Brush with Ann Coulter
By Jack Downey A student group's reasons for uninviting Ann Coulter from a visit to Fordham University should be troubling.
A Questionable Purpose, A Test of Words
Part of The Revealer’s series on the John Jay report, “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010.”
by Jack Downey
Last month, a team of researchers from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, led by Dr. Karen Terry, published a 150-page report entitled
Much Love to You Always, Dorothy
All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day; Marquette University Press (2011), $35
Reviewed by Jack Downey
The acclaimed Catholic University of America professor, John Tracy Ellis, once said that you can’t be a good historian unless you enjoy reading dead people’s mail. Happily for anyone who considers herself a Dorothy Day aficionado but...
Enter the Dragon: How Al Gore, the U.N., Earth First!, and an Episcopalian Bishop are All in Cahoots… with Satan
by Jack Downey
In 1964, Richard Hofstadter published a rather enduring essay in Harper’s Magazine that succeeded, if nothing else, in accomplishing what most (egomaniacal) writers only fantasize about: he coined a new phrase that had legs, and has proved a valuable addition to our intellectual lexicon.1 “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” investigated the...
