I reported here a few weeks ago about a new radical thrust in environmentalism that seeks to hyper criminalize resource development as an international crime akin to genocide or crimes against humanity. At the time, I promised a more thorough analysis. It is now out in the current Weekly . . . . Continue Reading »
A lot of publications brag about having intelligent, engaged readers. But few magazines have anything comparable to ROFTERS —“Readers Of First Things ” who convene across the U.S., Canada, Spain, U.K., and New Zealand to discuss the magazine’s features. Our readership truly is . . . . Continue Reading »
A street preacher in England was arrested and locked in a cell for seven hours for telling a passer-by that homosexuality is a sin in the eyes of God. As Frank Lockwood , religion editor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , says, “It’s ironic, isn’t it, that the nation that gave us . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Asia Times Online, I posted a new Spengler essay this morning:Memo to heads of state: beware the clever general who turns up at a tough moment, and says “Leave it to me: I can fix it for you.” Two examples come to mind. The great field marshal of the Thirty Years War of . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Well, I’ve been stuck grading a huge number of papers by the overachieving Berry College students yesterday and today. We in the sticks don’t have graders, and our students actually seem to both have fun with and take very seriously their assignments. 2. So I’m just taking a . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Schiavo has threatened to sue the Schindlers because the family named its non profit organization the “Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation”—he claims he owns the name. And, true to form, an ever compliant media fronted his cause with an unfair attack on the family. . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Schiavo has threatened to sue Terri Schiavo’s family because they named their non profit after her—the “Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation.” (MS claims he owns the name. ) And, true to form, an ever compliant media fronted his cause with an unfair attack on the . . . . Continue Reading »
I worry about the devolution of medicine from a healing profession into a lifestyle, on demand, technocratic enabling guild. We see it all around us. Octomom, for example, wasn’t infertile. The IVF she wanted had nothing to do with medicine in the sense of helping her overcome a . . . . Continue Reading »
The French writer Vercors (Jean Bruller) begins his novel, You Shall Know Them , just after Douglas Templemore injects his infant son with strychnine chlorhydrate. Although anguished by the killing, the father had planned the act even before the child had been sired. It was his attempt to save the . . . . Continue Reading »
Two Canadian parents aiming to exempt their children from a state-run religious education program are seeking recourse to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Ethics and Religious Culture curriculum, developed under Jean Charest’s government, is mandatory in both public and private schools, . . . . Continue Reading »
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