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 her face . . . . Continue Reading »
So says Rainer Maria Rilke, in either the first or the second of the Duino Elegies — off the top of my head I can’t remember which. Meanwhile, over at Touchstone’s Mere Comments blog, they’ve been talking about angels. Though the conversation begins with the question of . . . . Continue Reading »
I would like to second what Spengler says in reply to David Brooks on the subject of genius. It is obvious that Brooks has never met any true geniuses and has no idea what he is talking about on this subject. There is at least one person alive today in my own field of theoretical particle . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a Reuters report that tells us the ” U.S. Military says Afghan Bibles have been Destroyed”: Bibles in Afghan languages sent to a U.S. soldier at a base in Afghanistan were confiscated and destroyed to ensure that troops did not breach regulations which forbid proselytizing, . . . . Continue Reading »
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 »
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