The Los Angeles Times reports that an experiment in Europe has confirmed that neutrinos have mass . The article suggests that this shows that massive neutrinos may account for a “large proportions” of mass in the universe. As with most science related articles in the mass media, this one . . . . Continue Reading »
I really like Canada and Canadians. (In fact, I am going there next week.) Alas, the vaunted Canadian health care system is sinking in a red ink sea and may be ultimately unsustainable. From the story:Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada’s . . . . Continue Reading »
N.B. please note the change in by-line for this posting.It has always been a most curious matter. As an advocate of traditional Christian practices of respect for human dignity, I have always called the attention of my ethics students to Immanuel Kant’s argument for this dignity. Traditionally . . . . Continue Reading »
My how time flies. SHS has been one of the First Things blogs for a year now, and so I thought I’d analyze how it’s going.I accepted the offer to switch to FT because I thought it would improve my numbers—then growing nicely—and my breadth of penetration into the . . . . Continue Reading »
Even or especially ordinary people know that when celebrities possess a singular artistic greatness, their lives are not for envy or imitation. Two of the most revered and beloved American celebrities were Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson. Certainly their deaths plunged us into grief in a way . . . . Continue Reading »
Maggie Gallagher on the real problem with contraceptives : The problem is not the Pill. The problem is the idea, which promoters of the pill introduced and promoted with great fanfare, that we have separated sex from reproduction. We teach the young to think of pregnancy as a rare emergency, an . . . . Continue Reading »
“Never apologize and never explain,” said John Wayne in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , “it’s a sign of weakness.” However prudent the Duke’s advice may be, if public figures were to heed it the media would soon go out of business. Apology-abetting, rather than . . . . Continue Reading »
Wonder why the Euro keeps collapsing? D er Spiegel ‘s German-language website cites a new study showing that by 2025, the number of German workers aged 19 to 24 will fall by nearly 5 million, while the number of workers close to retirement will rise by 1.4 million. The aging pattern is . . . . Continue Reading »
Why do art collectors pay millions of dollars for works that have no apparent material value? In a lengthy and rambling essay, Matthew Brown makes a persuasive case that the market for modern art can be traced back to the tradition of relic-adoration: Prior to the Renaissance, and even during it, . . . . Continue Reading »
My good friend and a thinker I admire greatly, Pejman Yousefzadeh, has read my book The End of Secularism and commented on it. I am very happy to have him read it because he is one of the few non-Christians of whom I am aware who have read the book. Because I value his opinion so highly, I . . . . Continue Reading »
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