The advice columnist at Salon receives a letter from a woman worried about her father’s conservatism: This is not the man I grew up with. I think he fears a future he cannot control, and longs for a past that never existed. He is responding to this existential crisis with fear, anger and . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Barone, on why all three of the members of Congress defeated so far this season were on appropriations committees: “Suddenly pork is not kosher.” Can I groan now? . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s a strangely nonchalant line at the beginning of yesterday’s New York Times profile of the thousandth US troop to die in Afghanistan: He was an irreverent teenager with a pregnant girlfriend when the idea first crossed his mind: Join the Army, raise a family. She had an abortion, . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been reading the final book in CS Lewis’s space trilogy That Hideous Strength, and I came across an excerpt worth sharing. For those unfamiliar with the book a man named Mark (who is an unbeliever) is being programmed under the threat of violence to think . . . . Continue Reading »
As a second “On the Square” entry today, just posted, Anthony Esolen reflects on Shakespeare’s Christianity through one of his more unusual beliefs: the beauty and necessity of male chastity. This was not much honored, even in his own day, as Esolen shows. Read Desires Run . . . . Continue Reading »
From my inbox, a press release about a new book, in which “Author discusses science, psychology and spiritual enlightenment.” And why not? “Imagine what your life would be like without fear. Imagine living a life filled with love, peace and understanding.” Who could object? . . . . Continue Reading »
We’re pretty sure this isn’t mentioned in the Constitution . . . . Continue Reading »
On Friday, the New York Times reported on the “chilling and ghoulish” case of William Melchert-Dinkel, a Minnesota man who haunted pro-suicide websites and coached at least two people to their deaths all for the “thrill of the chase,” in his own words. Today I . . . . Continue Reading »
While I have a minute today, I have been working through James Davison Hunter’s To Change the World along with another book which I think is the right theological companion to it, and it turns out that Chuck Colson has published a “response” to Davison’s book at Christianity . . . . Continue Reading »
Biotechnology has not been much in the news lately. Adult stem cell successes continue to be ignored by media and induced pluripotent stem cell research continues apace. There are no human trials approved for embryonic stem cells—despite years of promises by Geron and others, . . . . Continue Reading »
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