Ryan Sayre Patrico

Farhad Manjoo is impressed with the new Amazon Kindle. And that’s what makes him fear that Amazon’s book distribution plan could ruin the publishing industry and severely restrict public discourse: It’s hard not to love Amazon’s new e-book reader. For starters, it’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s the lede from an article in the Economist inappropriately subtitled “American attitudes to stem-cell therapies are changing fast”: For the past eight years, America’s government has declined to fund new research into one of the world’s most promising medical . . . . Continue Reading »

Britain’s latest campaign to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies—through increased sex-ed and access to contraception—has hit a snag : The latest study of pregnancy in Britain has shown that the rate of conception among girls under 18 has risen for the first time in five years. . . . . Continue Reading »

The possible becomes permissible; the permissible becomes the imperative. . . . . Continue Reading »

Because pornography’s exploitation of women wasn’t blatant enough already. . . . . Continue Reading »

This time in Britain, where Oxford University neuroscientist Susan Greenfield fears that the overstimulation caused by technologies such as television, video games, and the social-networking website Facebook can “rewire” the brain, “infantilising [it] into the state of small . . . . Continue Reading »

From The Edmonton Journal comes the story of Dr. Lisa Hornberger, a renowned fetal cardiologist recruited last fall by Alberta Health Services and the University of Alberta from San Fransisco: Before Hornberger arrived, pediatric cardiologists, who specialize in children rather than fetuses, were . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at the Wall Street Journal , Kay Hymowitz, sees the story of Nadya Suleman, aka Octomom , as another troubling sign that fathers are loosing their foothold in society: But in all of this punditry one question goes missing: Where is Octodad? Surely Ms. Suleman’s babies have a father. Yet . . . . Continue Reading »

From the October 2002 edition of The Public Square: (The following report is submitted by our ubiquitous correspondent George Weigel.) Outraged commentary quickly followed Bishop Timothy M. Dolan’s June 25 remark that his first priority as the tenth Archbishop of Milwaukee would be to talk . . . . Continue Reading »

That’s what some people using the ocean version of Google maps think . Update: Google says no . . . . . Continue Reading »