"The task of the university is to form and inform minds by arousing curiosity about the best that has been taught and said." Richard John Neuhaus "A University of a Particular Kind" in First Things, April 2007. "Sometimes big words come into my mind. Then, when I shut the hairdryer off they go away." Germaine Jesbeg The Victoria Gazette.  July 1997. "Learning is less contemplative than hunt, exploration, and discovery." Peter  J. Leihart on Francis Bacon in Touchstone, May 2007. "Nothing that is natural, traditional, cultural, religious, social, or moral is safe from the Gnostic idea." Allan Carlson in "Conjugal America," reviewed in Touchstone, May 2007. "It is one thing to be dead.  It is another thing to be meat." Russel D. Moore quoting David Quammen "All Things Dark & Terrible" in Touchstone, June 2007. "Legitimate law cannot be divorced from morality. Every law of consequence reflects a moral judgment." Richard John Neuhaus "The Public Square" in First Things, June/July 2007. "There's nothing wrong with being intolerant, as long as you're intolerant about the right things." Jason Lewis Talk Radio.  July, 1997. "The soldier who willingly fights for his country has laid down his life already; if he is allowed to keep it, that is a bonus." Robert Hart "Cool Daddy" in Touchstone, May 2007. "Even the best dressed and best behaved among us are oafs and waifs pressing our dirty noses against the window." Mike Aquilina on "Unwashed Masses" in Touchstone, May 2007. "At first God created man.  Then he had a better idea." Sr. Frances Dessel Dubuque, Iowa, in The Victoria Gazette.  July, 1997.