To what extent is sharia compatible with Western law? Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Britain’s Supreme Court president Lord Phillips created a stir in 2008 by proposing that British courts might permit the application of Muslim religious law. Numerous American scholars . . . . Continue Reading »
The one thing that Syria’s president Basher Assad likes about the United States is President Obama himself. “I want to distinguish between the person of Obama and America in its capacity as a state. The president has good intentions . . . but then there is Congress, the lobby, which . . . . Continue Reading »
Responding to a friend who noted that hotels now advertising themselves as “gay-friendly” would never advertise themselves as “heterosexual-friendly” and rarely as “child-friendly,” a second friend responded: What if hotels who say “family friendly” . . . . Continue Reading »
An interesting article in the New York Times on the decline of black congregations in Harlem: All Souls’ Church, on St. Nicholas Avenue, and any number of the traditional neighborhood churches in Harlem that had for generations boasted strong memberships — built on and sustained by . . . . Continue Reading »
In Atheism’s Just So Scenarios , today’s “On the Square” article, Father Edward Oakes, S.J., describes the “puffed-up braggarts” who in trying to undermine religion undermine science as well., by trying to offer a third scenario to the only two possible . . . . Continue Reading »
DateFavorOpposeMay 22-2363%32%May 14-1556%39%May 1056%37%Apr 30-May 154%39%Apr 24-2558%38%Apr 16-1756%41%Apr 10-1158%38%Apr 2-354%42%Mar 27-2854%42%Mar 23-2455%42%Obamacare is not growing more popular with time. In fact, Rasumssen—which is one of the most accurate of these measurements . . . . Continue Reading »
The Atlantic estimates the net worth of the U.S. presidents : Having examined the finances of all 43 presidents (yes, 43; remember, Cleveland was president twice), we calculated the net worth figures for each in 2010 dollars. Because a number of presidents, particularly in the early 19th Century, . . . . Continue Reading »
Today Canadians celebrate Victoria Day, the first of the summer long weekend holidays. What better way to spend the day than to page through a copy of Owen Jones’ The Psalms of David, “with permission dedicated to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria,” also known as the . . . . Continue Reading »
Before his death in 1910, Mark Twain left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death. Fortunately for us, that’s now : Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate, one of Mark Twain’s dying wishes is at last coming . . . . Continue Reading »
Gene Fant dug up this little gem from Timothy Morton in the latest Proceedings of the Modern Language Association : It’s not just that rabbits are rabbits in name only; it’s that whether or not we have words for them, rabbits are deconstructive all the way down—signifying and display . . . . Continue Reading »
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