1. Sabato and Abramowitz , two of our most astute and fair-and-balanced political scientists, are now certain that our president will serve only one term. Either he will be defeated for reelection (by anyone but Palin) or he will bow to the inevitable and decide soon to not seek reelection. 2. I . . . . Continue Reading »
Several years ago I had a student in my classes who was born in Baghdad and claimed to have grown up speaking both Aramaic and Arabic. Her family are Christian and consider themselves Assyrian, one of the most ancient communities in that part of the world. They had come to Canada some years earlier . . . . Continue Reading »
In the first to today’s “On the Square” articles, R. R. Reno examines The Idols of Revisionist Theology . They are not the kind of idols Scripture condemns, but precisely the kind of dogmatic security more traditional Christians believe protects us from idolatry. Perhaps . . . . Continue Reading »
We live in a time of grand explanations of Obama—Dinesh D’Souza’s post-colonialism, Stanley Kurtz’s socialism, and James Kloppenburg’s pragmatism have all come to the fore recently. Now Sean Wilentz throws his hat in the ring. Our President is (or was) the leader of a . . . . Continue Reading »
Biological colonialism is a growing problem—the rich exploiting the poor for natural resources that are pieces of human flesh. In S. Africa, a hospital was fined way too little for taking the organs from people, including minors, who were paid to be maimed. From the story:South . . . . Continue Reading »
Good for Todd Hartch. The professor of history at Eastern Kentucky University decided to go public, writing a letter opposing the decision by the university president to extend benefits to domestic partners akin to those available to married couples. On Public Discourse, he gives an account of his . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t get the NYT editorial page. On one hand, it notes that a new study indicates that CT scans can save lives of heavy, or formerly heavy smokers. From the editorial:A government-sponsored study has found that annual CT scans could reduce the mortality rate from lung cancer in very heavy . . . . Continue Reading »
The voters in four states have now had a chance to weigh in on Obamacare’s individual insurance purchase mandate. MO was first, and voted to outlaw the mandate in the Show Me State. Now, AZ and OK have overwhelmingly joined Big MO. From the story:Voters in Oklahoma and Arizona . . . . Continue Reading »
In Lessons From the Post-Vietnam Military , today’s second “On the Square” article, George Weigel argues that “authentic Catholic reformers have a lot to learn from the men who [in the decades after the end of the Vietnam war] turned a crumbling Army—riven by racial . . . . Continue Reading »
Fr. Raymond De Souza published a short piece today on the recent “orgy of violence in Iraq” , in which sixty Catholics and their priests were killed while attending Mass at Baghdad’s cathedral, Our Lady of Salvation. A more anti-Christian attack could hardly have been . . . . Continue Reading »
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