One drawback of Leviathan is that Hobbes, the great theorist of the individual, doesn’t theorize the kind of individual that emerges in real life in the wake of, say, Napoleon. (This is a kind of individual different yet from the one we associate with the Revolution itself.) Already within . . . . Continue Reading »
Obama is no post-partisan, writes Bill McGurn: Only last summer we were told that Barack Obama’s political appeal rested on his vision for a “post-partisan future.” The post-partisan future was one of the press corps’ favorite phrases. It served as shorthand for the . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Jerusalem Post , an interview with a member of the Iranian paramilitary whose job it was to rape virgins so that they could be executed: The Basiji member, who is married with children, spoke soon after his release by the Iranian authorities from detention. He had been held for the . . . . Continue Reading »
Over on the Postmodern Conservative blog, James Ceaser talks about our current intra-galactic policy : Most Americans may not realize it, but the United States Government now has what amounts to an official intra-galactic policy. Our position was formulated in the decision to allow the Pioneer and . . . . Continue Reading »
Anne Lamott wrote once that prayer boils down to saying either Help Help Help or Thank you Thank you Thank you. The description’s accurate enough, as I have some reason to know, and as a default mode for prayer, I guess a person could do worse. To believe in God to begin with, and to believe that . . . . Continue Reading »
Sikhs, the turban, and the crisis of secularismThe European Court of Human Rights has http://www.examiner.com/x-16024-Europe-Policy-Examiner~y2009m7d17-European-Court-rules-against-the-Sikh-turban-in-French-schools have ruled that male Sikh students cannot wear the turban in school. This prohibition . . . . Continue Reading »
If iPSCs work, they will be better than ESCs because they will be made from the patient’s own cells, and hence, no tissue rejection. They will also be better than using cloned ES cells because they will be easier and less expensive to derive. They will be better than both therapeutic cloning . . . . Continue Reading »
Boy, let us hope this works out! Scientists have discovered that adult stem cells may be able to help restore memory lost to Alzheimer’s dementia. From the story:Researchers have shown for the first time that neural stem cells can rescue memory destroyed by advanced Alzheimer’s disease, . . . . Continue Reading »
This letter , authored by Fr. Fessio, just appeared on the Ignatius Press website : This morning, (Monday, July 20th) Dr. Jack Sites, Academic Vice President of Ave Maria University, flew from Houston, where he was attending a meeting of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, to San . . . . Continue Reading »
James W. Ceaser I was deeply impressed with Peter Lawler’s fine essay, NASA Needs A Philosopher, above all with his last point—number 7—about the possible character of relations with other “civilizations” we might encounter in the universe. I wrote an essay on this same . . . . Continue Reading »
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