Afternoon Links — 10.12.10

The pendulum has swung in our understanding of Cro-Magnon man and his art , as shown in a new book on the paintings in the Ice Age caves in the Dordogne.

Fathers in Spain are entitled to leave work for two half hour periods a day for the first nine months of their child’s life for . . . breastfeeding. Their not being able to do so is ” unjustified discrimination on grounds of sex ,” ruled a Spanish court.

Christianity in Europe isn’t dead as American Christians often believe , just different.

Full-body scanners in airports do not threaten Americans’ privacy , Amitai Etzioni writes in a Communitarian defense of such measures.

Jewish Americans give more to the needy — people who need food and shelter and other basics — than other Americans, a study shows.

Michael Liccione (a First Things writer, as here ) discusses the question of whether God has given anyone “efficacious grace” (and to Mary in particular) and the objection that if He did He would have given it to everyone.

Salon.com names the five most anti-Muslim political ads of the year. The Witherspoon Institute’s Jennifer Bryson reviews a new movie satirizing Islamic terrorists .

And in lighter news, Selling used books can be embarrassing , an Amazon.com bookseller writes, and a creative couple  drive a Radio Flyer wagon they made .