According to a Montreal newspaper , “Distribution Percour Inc., owner of Boutique Séduction in Montreal North, has been ordered by a Quebec Court judge to pay $500 for selling an item called Sleeve Super Stretch whose packaging was in English only. Acting on a citizen’s complaint, . . . . Continue Reading »
Time magazine is devoting an upcoming cover story to the fiftieth anniversary of the anniversary of “The Pill.” In reply, Albert Mohler reflects on the significance of the event—and how evangelicals failed to foresee the detrimental implications: Within a decade of the Pill’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at USA Today ’s Faith and Reason blog, a suspiciously told story of a high school graduation ceremony held at a public auditorium . . . err, megachurch. The organizers say it doesn’t look churchy enough to violate the separation of church and everything else. USA Today thinks . . . . Continue Reading »
In reflecting on the relationship between story and the rules of the game, Brian Phillips writes : What that means is that, if we care about the sport as a story, we have to hope that the people in charge of running it do their jobs just badly enough to ensure that the Hand of God . . . . Continue Reading »
Animal rights activists—as opposed to animal welfare proponents—universally oppose all medical research no matter how beneficial to human health and well being. Some admit that research provides benefits, but others—like PETA—lie, claiming that because there isn’t . . . . Continue Reading »
Whether one was for or against Obamacare, we all knew it would be more expensive than the Administration or its supporters in Congress pretended. And now, a new U.S. Government study illustrates the depth of dishonesty and the blatant false advertising by politicians who claimed it would . . . . Continue Reading »
A favorite joke about the Obama administration, that is, about President Obama’s penchant for running the government out of his Blackberry rather than through his cabinet, used to go as follows: “Quick, who’s the National Security Advisor?” The National Security . . . . Continue Reading »
Mexico allows visual artists to pay their taxes with artworks: That’s the deal Mexico has offered to artists since 1957, quietly amassing a modern art collection that would make most museum curators swoon. As the 2009 tax deadline approaches, tax collectors are getting ready to receive a whole . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve been deluged by (two) requests to post the Mad Men stuff from my Furman talk: From our view, people not so long ago lived somewhere between contemptible self-indulgence and inexplicable insanity. That’s the message, for example, of the excellent—if highly politically . . . . Continue Reading »
In the pages of his blog for World Affairs, David Reiff has been musing of late about the ways in which historical consciousness influences our political and social imaginations. His reflections on historical memory, especially the tendency for societies to carefully tend the fires of past . . . . Continue Reading »
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