“Many students,” especially freshmen, writes an English professor at West Point, “do not rate their knowledge very highly; they divorce their private or extracurricular expertise from knowledge they acquire in a formal academic context,” and they need to read Sherlock Holmes . . . . Continue Reading »
First it was the New York Times. Now, it’s western cousin the Los Angeles Times, has written an editorial that calls rationing fears about Obamacare “irrational”—as it implicitly calls for rationing. First, the editorial decries the opposition and supposed . . . . Continue Reading »
Imagine living in the U.K. where expressing disapproval of homosexuality makes you unfit to be foster parent . Aren’t we fortunate that it could never happen here? Gay rights laws are eroding Christianity and stifling free speech, Church of England bishops warned yesterday. Senior clerics, . . . . Continue Reading »
According to a recent report in the U.K., a hard-working cafe owner has been ordered to tear down an extractor fan—because the smell of her frying bacon ‘offends’ Muslims. Mrs Akciecek and her husband Cetin, 50,—himself a Turkish Muslim—work more than 50 . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s second “On the Square” article, painter and art critic Maureen Mullarkey reviews an exhibit at a New York museum comparing icons in Orthodox Christianity and Tibetan Buddhism. Modernity’s Seductive Hedges begins: Modernity offers uneasy secularists two seductive . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Hargrave argues that John Locke and Pope Leo XIII have more in common than you might imagine: It isn’t often that John Locke is mentioned in discussions of Catholic social teaching, unless it is to set him up as an example of all that the Church supposedly rejects. After all, Locke is . . . . Continue Reading »
Physicists are once again trying to use the LHC to accidentally destroy the world : The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a “mini-Big Bang” by smashing together lead ions instead of protons. The scientists working at the enormous machine on Franco-Swiss border . . . . Continue Reading »
In Who’s Sorry Now? , Elizabeth Scalia asks what Democrats are not so ostentatiously sorry as they were in 2004. She suggests, in today’s first “On the Square” article, that they may have seen something they’re actually sorry about. . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientists have used a modified version of the induced pluripotent stem cell process to create blood cells out of skin cells—without going through the pluripotent stage. This could be big. From the story:Mick Bhatia, scientific director of McMaster’s Stem Cell and Cancer Research . . . . Continue Reading »
[Conclusion of the astute synopsis by Mr. Entel, followed by his even more astute questions:] Plato, Hancock contends, enacts this yoke between being and knowing by seemingly affirming the simple superiority of theory to practice, thus suppressing the question of the relation between the good of . . . . Continue Reading »
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