Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is sometimes an almost unbearably bad novel, but it keeps selling. I just finished rereading it trying to find what can be redeemed from it beyond the obvious fact that it opposes the evil of collectivism. I need more because it is easy to find a more concise and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Health Administration Blog has named SHS one of the “Top 50” blogs about stem cell research, in the “Bioethics” section. (The listings appear to be alphabetical in each section.) Whoever prepared the list sure did their homework. There are a lot of good blogs . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday Ross Douthat penned—can we still say that?—a column based on the annual report on The State of Our Unions issued jointly by the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project and the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values . The report . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week I drew attention to the way in which Robert Orsi, the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies at Northwestern University, slammed the Catholic Church in an online tirade . I’m someone who respects (and respectfully disagrees) with a great deal of loyal Catholic dissent. Yes, . . . . Continue Reading »
We have previously discussed the injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who ruled that President Obama’s embryonic stem cell funding policy violated federal law. That funding cutoff was stayed on appeal, the oral arguments of which were heard yesterday. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
In America, the highly educated (people with college degrees) are more likely to go to church every week than are the moderately educated (high school diploma or some college): In addition to an “education gap” in marriage, there is also a “faith gap,” says the new State of . . . . Continue Reading »
Some readers will recall that I recently argued in favor of keeping more or less the current federal healthcare insurance plan, provided that it be amended fully to exclude abortion and euthanasia, and to protect conscience. My reason was that heathcare insurance in the private market has shown a . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s second On the Square piece, Owen Strachan recounts the high human cost of football from NFL defensive backs to high school quarterbacks and asks whether America’s new national pastime is worth the price: Football injures many more than it kills. The number of reported . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s “ On the Square ” essay, First Things columnist Elizabeth Scalia draws attention to a recent episode in the “war on Christmas” and the war on the “war on Christmas,” both of which have grown rather tiresome over the years. Scalia notes that the cynical . . . . Continue Reading »
Hans Rosling, a professor of public health from Sweden, has an amazing presentation on how lifespan and income have risen together over the past 200 years. (Via: Blog and Mablog ) . . . . Continue Reading »
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