On his radio program, Fox News’ Glenn Beck encouraged listeners to leave their church if it proclaims a concern for social justice: I’m begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your . . . . Continue Reading »
After Matthew Scully’s screed against A Rat is a Pig, etc., discussed here, National Review gave me the opportunity to write an extended reply. Let me deal with his continuing mendacity first, and then I will write a second post excerpting some of my more general comments.In his review, . . . . Continue Reading »
And now a word from our sponsor:COD, as I call it, has probably been my most successful book, other than The Lawyer Book, back in 1988. It has certainly had the most impact (followed closely by Forced Exit, which is more narrowly focused on euthanasia/assisted suicide).The good news is that it . . . . Continue Reading »
A poll for the BBC World Service suggests that almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental human right . . . . . Continue Reading »
Makoto Fujimura—an artist I’ve mentioned before —makes an astute point that “art is both in the execution and in the revelation of the extraordinary”: I’ve heard many people say of contemporary art: “my kids can do that.” I encourage them, then to try it . . . . Continue Reading »
Focusing on the practices of the church is all the rage these days. James K.A. Smith’s Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation an excellent and thought provoking book is only the latest volley in a long list of theologians attempting to reorient the center of . . . . Continue Reading »
Let the market be the market, no more and no less. Continue Reading »
Popular Science , which started as a text-only newsletter in 1872, has made its entire 137-year archive available for free browsing . It’s an invaluable resource, especially for those of us interested in retrofuturism (depictions of the future produced in the past). From the 1920 to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, it’s good to be back. I apologize for my lack of blogging this past month, but the law really is a jealous mistress. With that said, there’s a lot of jurisprudential ground to cover, so let’s get to it. First and foremost, and contrary to the rumors on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Justin E. H. Smith on words that can mean either one thing or its opposite: Antonyms, of course, are pairs of words that have meanings opposite to each other. Autoantonyms, in turn, are single words that themselves can mean either one thing or its opposite. This can happen either by convergence . . . . Continue Reading »
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