I was sitting at my son’s baseball game last night catching up on some reading when I picked up the latest issue of PMLA, the journal of the Modern Language Association (March 2010). The first essay was by Timothy Morton: “Queer Ecology.” Prof. Morton calls for a . . . . Continue Reading »
Pro lifers are often depicted in the media as not very bright. But they are actually quite clever politicians, adept at using every available legal means to reduce the number of abortions, persuade the masses to accept their cultural beliefs—the majority in America now identify as pro . . . . Continue Reading »
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Roman Catholic primate of Canada, has stirred up controversy by reiterating his church’s position on abortion at a recent pro-life conference. In response, Charles Lewis asks: Is the Pope . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing in the English Catholic weekly The Tablet , Catholic bioethicist David Albert Jones discusses the U.K.’s General Medical Council’s new guidelines for treating dying patients. He notes that: A Catholic understanding of good end-of-life care is “both-and”: . . . . Continue Reading »
The current First Things (June/July 2010) has an important article by Eric Cohen and Yuval Levin—both of whom were staffers on the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon Kass. They note that President Obama has profoundly downplayed bioethics in his presidency so far—other . . . . Continue Reading »
Unto His Own Image God becomes man: Venter creates synthetic life , reads one headline. One among many, many such boomings of the news about scientist Craig Venter’s synthesis of a new bacterium. A correspondent of Megan McArdle’s observes: I am getting bombarded with the Venter . . . . Continue Reading »
The Dalai Lama says , “Still I am a Marxist,” on his arrival in New York. It’s true that “Millions of people’s living standards improved” in China because of capitalism, but Marxism has “moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to make profits.” . . . . Continue Reading »
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms claims to guarantee all Canadians certain fundamental freedoms, including “freedom of conscience and religion” and “freedom of association.” However, following American precedent this country’s courts have tended to interpret religious . . . . Continue Reading »
The Wall Street Journal reports today that several theaters in Manhattan are charging moviegoers $20 per adult ticket to see Shrek Forever After in 3-D. The jury is still out on whether 3-D is the way of film’s future or just another gimmick (Armond White has much to say on the subject in the . . . . Continue Reading »
In Excommunicating Intentions , today’s second On the Square article, Michael Liccione examines the controversy over the Bishop of Phoenix’s declaration that a nun who had approved an abortion had excommunicated herself. It is not, he suggests, so simple a matter of controversialists on . . . . Continue Reading »
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