Ryan Sayre Patrico

Over at Slate , Howard Gardner of Harvard University reviews Dacher Keltner’s Born to Be Good . In his book, Keltner argues that “human beings have survived as a species, and have gained dominion over the planet, because we have managed to control our most destructive and hostile . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at the Times Literary Supplement , A. N. Wilson reviews William Oddie’s latest book, Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy : Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy painstakingly follows the development of GK’s ideas from the schoolboy poet and debater of the 1880s to the author . . . . Continue Reading »

This in today from the Guardian : The well-being of millions of children across Britain is being damaged by adults’ aggressive pursuit of personal success, a three-year inquiry by the Children’s Society concluded today. The society—a charity allied to the Church of . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s a revealing statement from the mother of the woman who gave birth to octuplets in Los Angeles earlier this week: She said that doctors had given her daughter the option of reducing the number of embryos, but she had declined. “What do you suggest she should have done? She refused . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter Beinart thinks so : When it comes to culture, Obama doesn’t have a public agenda; he has a public anti-agenda. He wants to remove culture from the political debate. He wants to cut our three-sided political game back down to two . . . . culture wars do end. In the 1920s, immigration, . . . . Continue Reading »

“Trouble” really is Ernest’s middle name! . . . . Continue Reading »

Not if you’re willing to shell out 150,000 dollars and hire a team of scientists: An American couple were so distraught at the prospect of losing their pet Labrador that they decided to pay £100,000 to clone him. Edgar and Nina Otto decided to have DNA samples of their pooch Sir . . . . Continue Reading »

From the BBC : A flat apparently untouched since before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has been discovered in the German city of Leipzig, German media report. An architect who renovates buildings in eastern Germany unlocked the door last week and was shocked to find himself in a veritable East . . . . Continue Reading »

AsiaNews reports that, at today’s general audience, Benedict XVI directly addressed the sobering reality of the Holocaust as well as his recent decision to lift the excommunication on the bishops of the Society of Saint Pius X: The Holocaust remains a warning against the power of evil and all . . . . Continue Reading »

Just in case you missed it, the Washington Times this Sunday had a wonderful article on Deirdre Byrne, a Catholic sister, army captain, and surgeon who spends her time caring for the poor and sick of the world: The statuesque, graying 52-year-old recently exchanged her habit for a helmet and . . . . Continue Reading »