The not so nice NICE has done it again, refusing to cover an effective life-extending drug called Lapatinib, approved by the FDA since 2007 (meaning it isn’t experimental), that can extend the lives of late stage breast cancer patients. And in this cruelty, is seen vividly the Obamacare . . . . Continue Reading »
“Follow the Islamic way to save the world,” Prince Charles urges environmentalists . To which Mark Steyn replies , “The Prince of Wales brings together the two great religions of our age.” A little over the top, but it does remind one of the extent to which feminism has . . . . Continue Reading »
While I’m not much of a soccer enthusiast, I’m a loyal fan of the sport of trash-talking. Worthy matches are hard to find, but an email exchange between the British Embassy in Washington and the U.S. Embassy in London about the upcoming America/England World Cup match reveal that the . . . . Continue Reading »
What can nonbelievers learn from religious art? Quite a lot, says Aaron Rosen in an article in The Humanist : This is not simply to say that all religious expressions are artistic. But what religious symbols can do, more powerfully than any other, is reveal a horizon of meaning towards . . . . Continue Reading »
I grew up with public school prayer and my fourth grade tyrant, Mrs. Earing, not only made us pray daily but also made us sing Faith of Our Fathers every Friday morning (though we never included the original verse praising the Virgin). A choir we were not. I really dislike that hymn. Best I can . . . . Continue Reading »
Martha Nussbaum, one of America’s leading public intellectuals, has devoted considerable attention in the last few years to the role that disgust and shame play in our individual and collective lives, particularly in the law.The book that got it all started was Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, . . . . Continue Reading »
“The popular myth of convivencia —the idyllic coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Spain from the Muslim invasion of a.d. 711 to the expulsions of 1492—appeals to the multicultural temper of the times,” writes artist and critic Maureen . . . . Continue Reading »
Some people will do anything for fame—even kill themselves in slow motion. A New Jersey woman is trying to get to the 1000 pound mark to set a world’s record. From the story:Donna Simpson, 42, from New Jersey weighs more than 42 stone and aims to reach 1,000 pounds, or 71st. The . . . . Continue Reading »
A conversation tonight reminded me of a scene I saw in South Dakota a few years ago: A pair of German tourists in the Black Hills, attempting to separate a mother buffalo from her new spring calf, so they could pose their children with the calf for a photograph. The scene is still vivid in my . . . . Continue Reading »
I was planning to followup my critique of Kant with a parallel commentary on utilitarianism, but was waylaid by picking up some unread material sitting in my bookcase: an anthology of Aquinas’ thought On Law, Morality, and Politics, Hackett Press, Second Edition. (I’ll quote from . . . . Continue Reading »
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