As I mentioned here , last week a rally was held by African-American ministers to protest same sex marriage legislation in Washington, D.C. The issue is now front page news with a Washington Post article titled, ” Uproar in D.C. as Same-Sex Marriage Gains “: The D.C. Council . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a nice contrast. First, Rod : As Wendell Berry explains, especially in “Sex, the Economy, Freedom & Community,” you cannot have community without order, and you cannot have a workable order as long as both economic and sexual decisions are wholly privatized — that . . . . Continue Reading »
Dying people in Ireland are having a hard time accessing vital hospice services under the country’s socialized medical system. From the Story: TERMINALLY ill patients are being put on waiting lists for vital end-of-life care as a result of the State’s long-term failure to adequately . . . . Continue Reading »
I guess face transplants—wherein a patient receives the “face” of a cadaver—are news because they are new. But I don’t see why anyone would oppose them—at least as a reconstructive procedure. Case in point: The first American woman to receive this procedure after . . . . Continue Reading »
Bearing public witness isn’t Jewish custom. We confess our collective sins corporately on the Day of Atonement. But an editorship at First Things is not a seat on a Wall Street trading floor, or a teaching gig at a conservatory of music; it is a position of public trust, and I owed the . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Catholic Herald : The Vatican drew up secret plans to appoint a new pope and relocate the Curia to a safe country if Adolf Hitler went ahead with his threat to kidnap the wartime pontiff, according to secret archives. Pope Pius XII informed leading bishops that his resignation would become . . . . Continue Reading »
While we very much appreciate all the readers of this blog and insist that you keep tuning in, don’t forget that First Things is also hosting four new blogs. They’re firing on all cylinders. At the Anchoress , Elizabeth Scalia discusses media bias—against Bush and toward Obama: . . . . Continue Reading »
This looks like it might be, as the phrase has it, a smart comedy: NBC’s Community , coming for the 2009-2010 season. The show brings together an eclectic band of community college students, albeit thoroughly and more than likely unfairly stereotyped. From the NBC website: It’s . . . . Continue Reading »
http://darwinianconservatism.blogspot.com/ is the blog-site of Larry Arnhart, the leading Darwinian conservative. There, you can see, he describes ME as a Gnostic existentialist Heideggerian for not believing that Darwin explains it all about human beings. Arnhart puts . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s the hilariously serious Mark Steyn commenting on those “Free Tibet” bumper stickers back in 2005 The other day I found myself, for the umpteenth time, driving in Vermont behind a Kerry/Edwards supporter whose vehicle also bore the slogan ‘FREE TIBET ‘. It must be . . . . Continue Reading »
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