Can you imagine the if ” the experts” suggested that genetic tests be done on all pregnant women to screen for supposedly undesirable racial characteristics or a propensity for homosexuality (if that could be done), with the goal of vastly reducing the number of babies born with those . . . . Continue Reading »
I have written about Philip Nitsckhe before. He is the Australian doctor who is obsessed with suicide machines and making sure that anyone who wants to kill themselves be able to do so, including—as he stated in an NRO interview—“troubled teens.” With the new . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . brought to you by James C. Capretta on his blog for the New Atlantis in Washington. . . . . Continue Reading »
If the fact that First Things is produced here weren’t reason enough to love New York, New York Magazine suggests some others, including this one : Pregnant women in New York know how to tough it out in the city, even to the point of giving birth at the subway . . . . . Continue Reading »
This is obviously a brilliant parody. But it made me think about the same kind of junk advocacy I have heard from politicians pushing embyronic stem cell and human cloning research. We have been told that embryos aren’t really embryos, they are just cell balls. We have been told that the act . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to Michael Linton for passing along this interesting piece on seven antiphons of Advent in music: They’re sung one per day, at the Magnificat during vespers. They are very ancient, and extraordinarily rich in references to the prophecies of the Messiah. Their initials form an acrostic. . . . . Continue Reading »
Today on our homepage you’ll find a lovely essay by Michael Novak on science and religion. This is the first of three pieces he’s written featuring pair of complementarities; the others are Man and Woman, and Truth and Freedom—both of which will be published here on the First . . . . Continue Reading »
Only the infinite God can compass Man’s infinite idiocy. “Diogenes” presents us with this choice cut of scholarly nonsense : The head of the history department at Virginia Military Institute suggests that the Apostle Paul may have been spying for the Romans. Rose Mary Sheldon, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently assisted suicide is becoming a big topic in Sweden, and so I have been asked by Radio UPF, out of the University of Lund, to speak on the issue of “suicide tourism.” They stated that opinions like mine aren’t heard all that often, and so they asked for some of my time. I . . . . Continue Reading »
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