This New York Times article on Washington think tanks. This article in the current issue of the Weekly Standard on the connection between religion and the death penalty. I’ve been called “religious” once or twice in the past, but, not being a supporter of capital punishment, I . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . may be this . People are aghast when I tell them I have never seen a single episode of the cartoon, which seems to have been on since Uncle Miltie was causing gender confusion back in the days when doctors did cigarette commercials. And my resistance is by no means due to some anti-TV . . . . Continue Reading »
Barely a week goes by when I don’t recommend Jody’s “When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano” to someone—it’s one of my five favorite pieces ever to run in First Things. I did so at a dinner last night when the conversation turned to the divisions that still . . . . Continue Reading »
I commute to work on the NYC subway system every day, a routine no longer subject to the provisions enumerated in the UN Convention Against Torture owing to a jurisdiction dispute. One of the ways the Transit Authority mollifies those of us trapped into favoring it with our custom is to post . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t usually write about partisan politics (I find the whole thing rather depressing), but reading the news coverage today about Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards dropping out of the presidential race, I had the following thought. Suppose that the Republicans ultimately nominate John McCain . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t know why the media is surprised when animal rights group are never satisfied. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine—which is a creature of PETA with only about 4% of its members being doctors—wants to stop medical schools from using animals in their teaching. From . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a recording of a Norton Lecture delivered by Dr. Alvin Plantinga on October 25 of last year. Here he lays out why there is deep discord between science and naturalism, or atheism. The argument goes (in super-simplified form) that, while Christians believe that one of the signal . . . . Continue Reading »
So a Book TV-type chat show for the Web is scheduled to debut, called Titlepage. When I first saw the headline and who the host was going to be, I thought maybe the site was going to serve as an auction block for new books—publishers read the first chapter on their laptops and ask to see more, . . . . Continue Reading »
More of this please. California regulators have hit Pacificare with a huge fine. From the story:After an unprecedented eight-month joint state probe triggered by hundreds of complaints, state health insurance regulators Tuesday slapped the PacifiCare unit of UnitedHealthcare with a record $3.5 . . . . Continue Reading »
As Rudy Giuliani goes gentle into that good night , it’s worth remembering what he was taken to represent, once upon a time. Or, at least, what Frank Rich told us he represented in the October 28, 2007, issue of the New York Times . At that moment, Giuliani was on the top of all the polls, . . . . Continue Reading »
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