Sigh: The NHS continues to collapse and I continue to report—but even I don’t post all the stories, striving as I do to keep SHS varied and interesting. But this can’t be overlooked: The NHS has been accused of “conveyor belt” childbirths. From the story:Women are . . . . Continue Reading »
Jonathan Last rightly pointed out that I was overly optimistic about the new movie of Brideshead Revisited . In a long, meaty essay in the Independent , John Walsh examines the rumors over the film, what it was that Waugh himself was trying to communicate, and why the book is so highly esteemed. . . . . Continue Reading »
Mail delivery to Rome most be delayed. Otherwise our friend Carrie Gress would have asked Joseph Pearce about the hard-hitting review in the new issue of First Things of his new book on Shakespeare’s supposed Catholic faith. If you’re a print subscriber, the August/September issue of . . . . Continue Reading »
The Boston Globe is reporting how far Haleigh Poutre has progressed since bioethicists, social workers, and courts decided to dehydrate her to death. From the story:Haleigh, now 14, has stayed for more than two years at Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton, where she is described as a . . . . Continue Reading »
For more than ten years I have been telling anyone who will listen that unquestionably conscious cognitively disabled patients are being denied sustenance in every state in this country—so long as no family member objects (and eventually, if futile care theory takes hold, it will be even if . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the title of a new book by Paul DeHart, professor of political science at Lee University. In a wide-ranging discussion of analytic philosophy, metaphysical and moral realism, natural teleology, and moral theory, DeHart builds on the work of Hadley Arkes, J. Budziszewski, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
Logic dictates that if you introduce a policy that restricts procreation in a culture that values boys over girls, you will end up with significantly fewer girls. The New Republic reminds us that t hat’s exactly what’s happened in China : “The one-child policy was instituted in an . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh, this is rich! During the campaign for Proposition 71, proponents promised that Californians would reap a cornucopia of benefits from borrowing $3 billion over 10 years to pay researchers in private companies and their business partners in universities to conduct human cloning and ESCR. And, they . . . . Continue Reading »
A few days ago, I posted a note on the discovery of an ancient, pre-Christian tablet that includes mention of a messiah rising in three days. (For information on the conference held in Jerusalem today where this was discussed, click here .) Some have suggested my post asserted that the . . . . Continue Reading »
The RAND report demonstrating that contrary to the warnings of some among the blank check crowd, the USA is not falling behind in scinece (which I referenced here at SHS) is now the subject of a Nature Medicine editorial (no link available). Despite years of moaning that the Bush Administration is . . . . Continue Reading »
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