“[M]y daughter, who has been studying Boethius, the great systematizer of the quadrivium, explained to me the connections between the arts of the quadrivium, in a way that also helped me see the way mathematics really does provide a unifying model for the order and design that underlies all . . . . Continue Reading »
Please excuse this excursion into areas not of direct concern to matters SHS. But my pal (and co-author) Ralph Nader deserves significant credit that he is being denied. Apparently, we have the lowest auto death rate in history. From the story:The fourth quarter of 2009 was the . . . . Continue Reading »
An Alaskan wolf pack apparently hunted and killed a jogger. Hunters are now out to kill the pack. From the story:Alaska authorities have dispatched teams of hunters to the Chignik Lake area of the Alaska Peninsular to hunt down the wolves they have concluded stalked and killed a special . . . . Continue Reading »
I received word last night that Baby Isaiah, the subject of a bitter futile care case in Canada, died in his parent’s arms after they decided the time had come to stop treatment. They made that decision—not the doctors and not the courts—based on the bad news they received . . . . Continue Reading »
Recently, there have been a number of well-meaning, though misguided, conservatives who are advocating filling in the Census with false information. Justin Taylor explains why that shouldn’t be an option for Christians : Some conservatives—for example, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, a . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the distinctive aspects of the Theology of the Body is its beautiful expression of the mutual relations of men and women, a mutuality that originates in and is best expressed by a sexual act which is constituted by self-giving. It’s a position that I am sympathetic to. But Francis . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay, so maybe I’m confused about that whole correlation/causation thing. But something happened in the 1960s and then again in the 1980s to cause grade inflation in colleges . The rise in grades in the 1960s correlates with the social upheavals of the Vietnam War. It was followed by a decade . . . . Continue Reading »
Although I’m agnostic about civil religion , I think the court made the right call in the decision not to remove God from the Pledge and currency : “The Pledge is constitutional,” Judge Carlos Bea wrote for the majority in the 2-1 ruling. “The Pledge of Allegiance serves to . . . . Continue Reading »
Damien Hirst’s bisected pig in formaldehyde is on sale at a Christie’s gallery in London for $12 million:Hirst’s 1996 taxidermy-in-formaldehyde piece, ‘‘This Little Piggy Went to Market, This Little Piggy Stayed at Home,” consisting of a pig sliced in half in two . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday’s New York Times carried an horrific account of the slaughter of five hundred Christians by Muslim nomads March 7. It begins:JOS, Nigeria — Dispassionately, the baby-faced young man recounted his killings: two women and one man, first beaten senseless with a stick, then stabbed . . . . Continue Reading »
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