The Weekly Standard has posted online my obituary for the poet and science-fiction writer Tom Disch : He sent me a note on July 2, just some jokey line about politics: nothing unusual, nothing portentous, nothing worth a call to see how he was feeling. Two days later, according to the news reports, . . . . Continue Reading »
My colleague at the Discovery Institute, John R. Miller, has a piece in today’s New York Times on slavery. Slavery is an important matter impacting human exceptionalism that I have covered here at SHS, but not nearly enough. Thank goodness for Miller-whose work at the State Department on this . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend writes to ask if anyone else has noticed the Spring 2008 issue of the Berlin Journal , which features an article by the NYU history professor David Levering Lewis entitled “Islam and the Making of the First Europe.” Not many of us get the Berlin Journal , but Lewis is a major . . . . Continue Reading »
A forum of that title took place a few weeks ago at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer here in New York. Fr. Neuhaus spoke on what Benedict said to American non-Catholics. Many of his remarks will be reprinted in the forthcoming issue of First Things , but if you want to see them in full, as well as . . . . Continue Reading »
Mary Rose, I think you may be jumping the gun a bit about the pre-Christian tablet recently reported on in the New York Times . You say, “All we can ascertain from this discovery is that this notion mentioned on the tablet—the notion of a suffering messiah dying and rising from the dead . . . . Continue Reading »
Space! Outer Space! The sooner, the better! Or so I claimed yesterday : “Space is the obvious next horizon for human beings. Want to diminish the biotech revolution to its proper role as a curer of disease? Offer a more exciting goal. Build a rocket ship, and fly it to Mars.” The recent . . . . Continue Reading »
My colleague Amanda Shaw has a nice review of Leszek KoÅ‚akowski’s philosophical primer Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? in the new July/August issue of Touchstone . The review isn’t available online, but do check it out if you find a copy of Touchstone . For more . . . . Continue Reading »
From the man who brought us great works of apologetics, refutations of relativism, and A Summa of the Summa , comes I Surf, Therefore I Am: A Philosophy of Surfing . Kreeft’s new book is released tomorrow, but here’s sneak peak at the introduction: Non-Introduction This book is for . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t put much stock in studies such as this, but since animal rights activists are ever about the purported unhealthful nature of meat, it may be that tofu increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. From the story: Eating high levels of some soy products - including tofu - may raise . . . . Continue Reading »
Regular readers of SHS know that I am critical of the trend to let “the scientists” decide what is ethical and what our public policies should be. That not only subverts science by mutating it into an ideology or social movement rather than a method (scientism), but is nuts because . . . . Continue Reading »
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