A Saudi man who paralyzed another man in a physical assault is threatened with the punishment of being made paralyzed. From the story:A Saudi man convicted of paralysing a fellow countryman in a cleaver attack is being threatened with having his spinal cord cut in a tit-for-tat punishment. The . . . . Continue Reading »
A slow day, but here are three things. The lone piper on D-Day has died. His obituary in the Daily Telegraph begins “Millin began his apparently suicidal serenade immediately upon jumping from the ramp of the landing craft into the icy water. As the Cameron tartan of his kilt floated to the . . . . Continue Reading »
I posted this piece earlier today at the Asia Times “Inner Workings” blog. Normally I don’t double post, but this is a cool piece of analysis. Pardon me for repeating myself. In the crudest version of the dividend discount model, the stock price P is a function of earnings and . . . . Continue Reading »
Democrats forced Obamacare down the national throat in defiance of the views of the American people. Having badly lost the political debate, they assured themselves that once people found out what was in it, we would thank them and see the wisdom of the new law’s ways.Uh, not so much. And so, . . . . Continue Reading »
From time to time we’ll be posting links to articles our editorial board members and contributing writers have published online, under the running title “Our Writers Elsewhere” and with the date to help with searching. Here are links to articles one editor and one writer have . . . . Continue Reading »
Margaret Somerville, the splendid Canadian bioethicist, has a good (and needed) column out defending human exceptionalism. From “Preserving Humanity:”Wrestling with difficult questions is routine work for ethicists. But some are much more difficult than others. Recently, an editor . . . . Continue Reading »
R. J. Snell, philosophy professor at Eastern University, posted an interesting essay today on The Public Discourse: “ Universities and the Graciousness of Being .” In the main, Snell wants to draw attention to the important role that good manners play in social life. At a minimum, like . . . . Continue Reading »
In The 50 Most Influential Religious Figures in American History , Joe Carter mentions G. K. Chesterton’s famous description of America as “a nation with the soul of a church. Readers may be interested in the context in which he wrote that. The famous phrase appears at the end of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Today in “On the Square”: David Hart reflects on the Mysteries of Consciousness , through his own and a friend’s having (or being given) a premonition of a friend’s death the next day. Now, these things—my vague intuitions, Jacob’s haunting dream—may have been . . . . Continue Reading »
In response to his own question, “What is America?”, G.K. Chesterton replied, “a nation with the soul of a church.” Throughout the nation’s history millions of believers of various faiths have shaped that soul. But which religious figures have had the most influence? I’ve selected fifty . . . . Continue Reading »
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