Last Friday, a minor ruckus arose when Amazon Kindle owners found that unauthorized editions of George Orwell’s books had been automatically deleted from their e-book readers. Glenn Reynold’s has a short , but revealing post, on the controversy: So I like my Amazon Kindle, but this . . . . Continue Reading »
Forty years ago today astronaut Buzz Aldrin made history by being the first man to take communion on the surface of the moon. Eric Metaxas relates the remarkable tale : The background to the story is that Aldrin was an elder at his Presbyterian Church in Texas during this period in his life, and . . . . Continue Reading »
According to Tom Wolfe , our space program needs a philosophic justification to get the “godlike” adventure that gave us all that right stuff going again. Here are a few random thoughts in that direction. I’m not saying I agree with them or that I’m volunteering to be a . . . . Continue Reading »
I see there’s a new edition of Robert Heinlein’s Farmer in the Sky . Finding a couple boxes of science-fiction as we unpacked here in the Black Hills, my wife and I just reread Heinlein’s juveniles—the sweet, fun run of books he wrote in the 1950s. Double Star is still my . . . . Continue Reading »
Switzerland is Jack Kevorkian as a country, a fact that for some, is becoming an embarrassment. To try and put a modicum of control on the situation—in which non terminally ill Britons as well as people from other countries have flown to Switzerland so they can be brought home in the baggage . . . . Continue Reading »
Worries are being expressed in some quarters that the House health care reform bill would require senior citizens to receive a mandatory “Advance Care Planning Consultation” every five years, the intent being to push seniors into choosing an earlier death as a cost saving measure. But . . . . Continue Reading »
How can doctors support euthanasia in a country in which patients have to wait months, or even years, for urgent testing and medical treatments? But ideology ignores all. Apparently the Quebec College of Physicians intend to support a “limited” license for doctors to kill . . . . Continue Reading »
Check this out. Bidding closes today, so hurry. Al says we can’t tell how good this really is without trying it ourselves; on the other hand, it’s not a Sacred Heart tongue stud. [Rating: 90 out of . . . . Continue Reading »
News has reached us that the great anti-Marxist philosopher and intellectual Leszek Kolakowski has died , in England at the age of eighty-one. A First Things contributor, he will be missed by all us. His essays in First Things include: • Visions of Eternity , and • What Is Left of . . . . Continue Reading »
“The failure of Caritas in Veritate to blend the many hands and voices evident in its composition has probably diminished its impact and encouraged selective reading . . . . Pope Benedict simply tried to do too much . . . . [In one view], what the encyclical gains in potential for further . . . . Continue Reading »
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