Blogito, ergo sum . I blog, therefore I am. This epistemological premise would seem to describe more than a few who inhabit the blogosphere these days. One wonders what would happen to the likes of an Andrew Sullivan or a Jonah Goldberg if they awoke one morning to discover that they were unable to . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew has a fairly careful and modest essay at the Times on the progress of religious faith in the face of scientific progress. The issue of whether faith should gird us to not fear scientific truth is an intriguing one; the Holocaust was scientifically true, after all, meaning the facts could not . . . . Continue Reading »
Sounds reasonable to me : A groundbreaking study suggests people with autism-spectrum disorders such as Asperger’s do not lack empathy—rather they feel others’ emotions too intensely to cope. People with Asperger’s syndrome, a high functioning form of autism, are often . . . . Continue Reading »
Richard Florida is blogging . Behold the intellectual firepower : While I find such lists informative and fun, in my book Who’s Your City, I say that there is really no such thing as a single best city: Invoking the old and somewhat cliched adage, “different strokes for . . . . Continue Reading »
Grassroots Films and CatholicVote.org have teamed up for another thought-provoking video: . . . . Continue Reading »
The saga continues. Of the latest architect, Santiago Calatrava, Nicolai Ouroussoff complains at The New York Times : Mr. Calatrava remains unable to overcome the project’s fatal flaw: the striking incongruity between the extravagance of the architecture and the limited purpose it serves. The . . . . Continue Reading »
When science becomes ideology or quasi-religion, it ceases to be science and becomes something else. The brilliant political analyst Michael Barone has weighed in on this concern in a new column (which also deals with gun control, beyond our scope here.) He notes that despite the constant propaganda . . . . Continue Reading »
What Rat learned when he drove through the San Francisco Bay Area. Goat must be from . . . . Continue Reading »
Mary Anastasia O’Grady interviews Archbishop Timothy Dolan for the Wall Street Journal : If Archbishop Dolan can save and perhaps even revive the city’s Catholic school system, he will be a hero to all of New York. But while he’s working on that, he has two other problems that are . . . . Continue Reading »
Over dinner last night my German-speaking husband let drop that our English word bead derives from the German beten, which means to pray. Not one to receive a piece of information lying down — if I had written my own marriage vows, my responses would all have been, “Oh, yeah?” . . . . Continue Reading »
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