Film at eleven . Outrageous! Next thing you know they’ll be telling us that spaghetti really comes from China, or that french fries come from Belgium, or that Catherinie d’Medici’s Florentine chefs are really the inventors of French cuisine! Or worse : That the fortunes in fortune . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m registered to vote in Belmont, the small suburb of Boston, and since I will be in New York on primary day, February 5, I requested an absentee ballot, which arrived today. On the left is a simple column with the usual suspects, where I get to select my “presidential . . . . Continue Reading »
A peer reviewed study claims to have created the first human cloned embryos, actually, the first cloned embryo. No stem cells derived. I warned readers that the iPSC breakthrough would redouble efforts among some scientists to successfully clone human embryos, and predicted that the derivation of . . . . Continue Reading »
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down recently a free-speech decision that is raising some eyebrows and might be of interest to readers. Of particular interest, perhaps, is the fact that the majority opinion in the case, Berger v. City of Seattle , was written by . . . . Continue Reading »
Fair enough, Jody, but I did make the distinction between the inchoate form and the finished work, and also the role an artist’s oeuvre might play in granting a special status even to unfinished work. (As for the title: How else am I going to get those RSS feeder readers to click?) As for the . . . . Continue Reading »
No surprise here: The UK’s “we never say no” Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has okayed the attempt to create cloned human embryos using cow eggs. The reason for this approach is the dearth of human eggs, the reasons for which we have discussed here before at . . . . Continue Reading »
I think your metaphor , of colorizing film or tearing down buildings, will not work for Nabokov’s unpublished, unfinished work , Anthony. Even your title of “burning books” doesn’t quite catch it, for the text from Nabokov isn’t yet a book. In other words, this . . . . Continue Reading »
Slate’s Ron Rosenbaum has this about his interaction with Dmitri Nabokov, son of the late writer Vladimir Nabokov. It seems that Dmitri was instructed by his father to burn the latter’s index-carded notes for a work entitled The Original of Laura . Dmitri, quite naturally, has had . . . . Continue Reading »
As many have heard, the former papal Master of Ceremonies (the man who organizes and runs the masses at which the pope presides) Archbishop Piero Marini has just published a book, in English, called A Challenging Reform: Realizing the Vision of the Liturgical Renewal, 1963-1975 . The book recounts . . . . Continue Reading »
Over on the New York Times ’ City Room website , there’s an interesting story about a man who was forced to undergo a rectal examination back in 2003. Receiving a head injury at a Manhattan construction, he was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital and given eight stitches on his . . . . Continue Reading »
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