Maureen Mullarkey is a painter who writes on art and culture (she recently wrote the OTS feature ” The Popular Myth of Convivencia “). Earlier this week she received an offer to teach an MFA class, accepted it, and resigned— all in the same day : Yesterday, I opened my . . . . Continue Reading »
It has always seemed to me that feminism was about women deciding what they want to do and be. The hitch has been the abortion issue. The first (what we now call) feminists, who cut their advocacy teeth in Abolitionism that sought to expand membership in the moral community, were generally . . . . Continue Reading »
Touchstone has made available online David Mills’ article ” Bad Books for Kids ,” which won first place in the practical theology category of the Associated Church Press competition : You may be surprised, if you don’t keep up on these things, and few of us have any reason . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s a common enough pastime on lazy summer days to lie on the grass gazing up at the sky and look for figures and faces in the clouds. But two professors at Johns Hopkins University, the New York Times reports, have turned their gaze from fluffy cumulonimbus clouds to the ceiling of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, the Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol proposed an intriguing replacement for Gen. McChrystal: If Gen. McChrystal does step down, there are undoubtedly many able general officers who could replace him. Here’s one unconventional suggestion, though: Ask Gen. David Petraeus to give up . . . . Continue Reading »
The city of New Haven has removed the words “in the year of our Lord” from all of its high-school diplomas this year, in a stroke that the city says will make the diplomas match all their other official public documents. School superintendent Reginald Mayo said: “I’m . . . . Continue Reading »
Just great. In Oregon, an assisted suicide clinic is going to be established. From the story:Portland psychiatrist Dr. Stuart Weisberg plans to open a house in the Sellwood neighborhood where the terminally ill can kill themselves under Oregon’s Death with Dignity Law. Weisberg told . . . . Continue Reading »
The Britain-based Islamic satellite channel “Birds of Paradise,” which is aired in Gaza, offers a musical number in which children sing the following to a bouncy Middle Eastern tune: “When we die as martyrs We will go to heaven. No, don’t say we are young, This life has . . . . Continue Reading »
Two more to add to the list : 11. Planned Parenthood’s latest ad: As my friend Jill Stanek says , “PP now specializes in aborting natural pregnancies and inseminating unnatural pregnancies - breaking up natural families and bonding unnatural families.” 12. From a news story . . . . Continue Reading »
One of my most searing experiences was moving to San Francisco in mid 1992 at the height of the AIDS catastrophe. To see so many emaciated young men walking down Market Street, on canes or supported by friends looking as if they were as old as Methuselah, was absolutely heartbreaking.It soon . . . . Continue Reading »
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