I cannot express my disappointment in Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in sufficiently strong terms. I voted for him despite knowing he was not my cup of tea in some areas because I believed he would get tough on California’s potentially terminal budget problems. Now, it is years later, . . . . Continue Reading »
Frank Capra and Ayn Rand aren’t often mentioned together. Yet the cheery director of Capra-corn and the dour novelist who created Objectivism have much in common. Both were immigrants who made their names in Hollywood. Both were screenwriters and employees of the film studio RKO. And during . . . . Continue Reading »
This is disturbing sign of what we’ve passed on to the younger generations : Researchers were conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography with regular users. But their project stumbled at the first hurdle when they failed to find a . . . . Continue Reading »
Question: What, if anything, is wrong with this video? I attempted to articulate one answer over at Mere-Orthodoxy. I highly commend Rhett Smith’s analysis as well, as Rhett is a therapist who is very sensitive to these issues. I love thinking about marriage because it . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, Al Gore has finally met his match. First, NASA’s James Hansen hopes Copenhagen will fail, not because it would destroy economies, but because it wouldn’t destroy them hard enough. From the story:In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world’s pre-eminent . . . . Continue Reading »
I could make the old joke about men dying earlier because we have to put up with women, but Secondhand Smokette would validate the study by killing me. So let me just skip the bad joke and get to the report that claims men are genetically doomed to earlier deaths. From the story:In . . . . Continue Reading »
My son, Andrew (age 7) has been reading way too much Pokemon and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The result has been an infusion of ideas and habits that aren’t necessarily all that helpful from a behavioral perspective.Suddenly, I realized that maybe I, the scholar-father, should make sure he . . . . Continue Reading »
The assisted suicide ideologues at Compassion and Choices—formerly the Hemlock Society—pretend that their agenda is very limited and constrained, merely a teensy-weensy safety valve for use when nothing else can be done to relieve suffering. That’s all phony, baloney of course. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Ouch. If you’re interested in somebody taking Cornel West to the intellectual, literary, and ethical woodshed, go over to Inside Higher Ed to read Scott McLemee’s review of Cornel West’s recently published as-told-to memoir. (Yes, the professor hired a ghost writer!) McLemee is right. Cornel . . . . Continue Reading »
This term I have been teaching Ancient & Mediaeval Political Theory, a course that is crosslisted between the philosophy and political science departments at Redeemer. Yesterday we heard two fine student presentations on Thomas Aquinas’ writings on the virtues (Summa Theologica Ia-IIae, qq. . . . . Continue Reading »
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