Belgium has followed the Netherlands in jumping off a vertical moral cliff by embracing legalized euthanasia. The awful consequences that I predicted are now coming to pass; a steady increase in the number of cases, inadequate reporting, and a large percentage of non voluntary euthanasia . . . . Continue Reading »
We are in the midst of a destabilizing societal crisis of confidence—and for good reason. In government, politics, law, diplomacy, media, science, religion, business, athletics, the academy—you name it—we have witnessed incompetence, mendacity, politicization masking for . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a Friday-evening post to start your weekend off right. This eight-month-old baby is deaf, but, with the help of a Cochlear implant, he can hear his mother’s voice for the first time. Amazing. . . . . Continue Reading »
We have been told repeatedly by global warming hysterics that humans are causing the glaciers to melt at unprecedented rates. We were even told that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035—until that nonsense had to be taken back. Now, we find out that at least some of the glacial . . . . Continue Reading »
A study by the University of Michigan finds that today’s college students are not as empathetic as college students of the 1980s and 1990s. Yet their is also evidence that this younger generation is more civic-minded than Generation X. Ross Douthat considers why this may not be as paradoxical . . . . Continue Reading »
The campaign by Obama supporters to get him to emote about the oil spill goes into high . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s not often that a president’s economic policy blows up the same week that his foreign policy blows up and his energy policy blows up, but this morning’s miserable unemployment report gives Obama a trifecta. The BP oil spill just gets worse and Obama looks helpless and . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Catholic literary journal Dappled Things , Hugo-nominated sci-fi writer Michael Flynn puts to rest the myth that Christianity held back science during medieval times, and shows how it was rather the opposite that was true : The philosophers of the “Age of Reason” called the Middle . . . . Continue Reading »
In The Perniciously Persistent Myths of Hypatia and the Great Library , today’s “On the Square” feature, David B. Hart dismantles one of the common examples of alleged dogmatism and ignorance invoked against Christianity. I remember some time in my youth reading or being told . . . . Continue Reading »
According to reports on Artinfo.com and Reuters.com , visitors to Athens this summer will be able to see something no one has seen for almost thirty years: the Parthenon, free of scaffolding. The scaffolding will return in September, however, when restoration work on the temple’s western . . . . Continue Reading »
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