“People apologize about four times a week,” but they apologize much more often to strangers (22% of the time) than to “romantic partners (11%) or family members (7%). The only folks we apologize to more? Friends (46%).” In literary news, Alvaro Vargos Llosa discusses his . . . . Continue Reading »
The National Primate Liberation Week should be renamed “Let’s Keep Humans Suffering Week,” as its goal is to end medical research on monkeys and other primates.If we did that, tremendous strides to alleviate human suffering would be thwarted. Here is just a very short and . . . . Continue Reading »
Lots of news outlets covered the story that Carla Bruni, famously scandalous third wife of the French president, had been effectively banned from the Vatican. ( CNN, for one .) The story was, as you might have guessed, completely wrong . It came from a satirical magazine, for one thing. Think of a . . . . Continue Reading »
I have deja vu! The UN is again pushing hysteria, warning that we are killing the planet. This time it isn’t global warming, but as I pointed out here previously, destruction of habitat. From the story:A U.N. biodiversity conference aims to address a simple problem: “We are . . . . Continue Reading »
The latest issue of The City features an article by First Thoughts contributor Matthew Milliner: ” The Tale of Two Art Worlds .” Milliner recounts the trajectory of postmodern art criticism, which over recent decades has adopted a progressive political outlook that . . . . Continue Reading »
Last month First Things columnist David Hart raised some eyebrows with his tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the nominee for “Greatest Nation on Earth” might just be Bhutan . While that country may have clean rivers and a dearth of strip malls, it’s sorely lacking religious liberties . . . . Continue Reading »
“Back when Dan Quayle was criticizing sitcom heroine Murphy Brown for promoting single-parenthood in a way that could negatively affect society,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in today’s “On the Square” article, The Credentialed Gentry and the Unpersuaded Yahoos , “he . . . . Continue Reading »
Msgr. Charles Pope continues his instructive series with a post on the problem of polygenism : There is also another matter which the Theory of Evolution gives rise to that a Catholic must be aware of and realize that he or she cannot give it uncritical acceptance. This is the usual premise in . . . . Continue Reading »
By now, you have probably seen, or at least heard of , this ad: I have no idea what Rand Paul did when he was an undergraduate at Baylor University, but I doubt that he ever seriously worshipped false idols. (Full disclosure: when I was young and cynical, and as yet unacquainted with that . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacare seeks to help the (relatively) few (in the millions) at the expense of the many (in the hundreds of millions). This is too bad because I believe we could and should have helped the relatively few without taking it out of the hide of the many—but that would have required the . . . . Continue Reading »
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