John Henry Newman on Catholic universities: Here, then, I conceive, is the object of the Holy See and the Catholic Church in setting up Universities; it is to reunite things which were in the beginning joined together by God, and have been put asunder by man. Some persons will say that I am . . . . Continue Reading »
Reading Alexander Waugh on Christopher Buckley , I thought about the strangely immoral project of weighing our parents—a thought I’ve had before : Every memoir of childhood is necessarily overshadowed by parents, and I could find, were I to turn my mind that way, stories of my . . . . Continue Reading »
I would note a couple of complications for the Front Porch discussion of Strauss in relation to an Alternative Tradition in America. Discussion of these complications might help to clarify what, if anything stable and substantial, is really at stake between a Front Porch and a Pomocon position . . . . Continue Reading »
Since I am self promotion mode today, I thought I would post this less than two minute promo for the CBC-produced documentary, Lines That Divide. It offers, I think, a good and quick overview of the ESCR . . . . Continue Reading »
As promised, my extended piece on the issue of “animal standing” to sue and its support by Cass Sunstein, rumored to be on the fast track to the U.S. Supreme Court and currently appointed to be “regulations czar” for the Obama Administration—is out in the Weekly . . . . Continue Reading »
As promised last week, my extended piece on Cass Sunstein supporting granting animals “standing” to sue in their own names, is now out in the Weekly Standard. From the column:Imagine you are a cattle rancher looking for liability insurance. You meet with your broker, who, as . . . . Continue Reading »
What does it say about the trajectory of the universe when David P. Goldman and Robert Reich appear to be saying the same thing about the economy?Probably nothing good.Goldman has been calling it a “zombie economy” for months:It’s not about getting a recovery going. That’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The following is another exerpt from Caritas in Veritate : Sometimes globalization is viewed in fatalistic terms, as if the dynamics involved were the product of anonymous impersonal forces or structures independent of the human will. In this regard it is useful to remember that while globalization . . . . Continue Reading »
Futile Care Theory is bearing down on us now like a...well you pick the cliche`. But it isn’t a joke. If you want treatment, and the bioethics committee of a hospital thinks it is “non beneficial,” your stated desires mean very little.Now the San Diego Medical Association has . . . . Continue Reading »
Ryan Sayre Patrico brings up a controversy here that is beginning to buzz around Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It concerns a statement she makes in an interview to be published this Sunday in the NYT Magazine , in which she opines that she once thought Roe v Wad e was about stopping the growth . . . . Continue Reading »
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