Buckley’s Mix

Michael Ignatieff

I was amused to see that, when he met Michael Ignatieff, Obama seems to have spent most of his time talking about friends they have in common. Not surprising, since Ignatieff knows everyone. I mean everyone. Well, at least 6 billion people anyway. I once received a change of address email from him, with many hundred [...]

Fr Richard Neuhaus, R.I.P.

Fr Neuhaus died a month ago, and the current issue of First Things has a collection of his back-of-the-book Public Square comments. It’s a fine magazne, but I wonder how many people, like me, first read with delight Neuhaus’ Public Square, and then turned to the front end of the magazine with a grim sense [...]

A Fragment

Saint Brychan of Wales had 24 sons and 26 daughters, of whom all of the former and half of the latter became saints in turn. Many of them were martyred by pagan Saxons at places where, remarkably, Saxons never lived. And that is all we know–or, rather, more than all we know–about Saint Brychan.