The International Journal of Obesity doesn’t sound like exciting nightime reading. But ever vigilant, the people over at ARTnews saw an interesting article. Analysis recently published in a study by Brain and Craig Wasnik shows the the problems of portion control aren’t new. They . . . . Continue Reading »
In the Fall of 2010, for the first time ever, First Things will release its own college rankings and guide. As many of you will know from experience, picking the right college is a difficult and trying process, especially for parents and students concerned not only with academic quality . . . . Continue Reading »
So, after 450-plus years, some Lutherans*, presumably trapped in an airport somewhere, bumped from their flights to see the La Brea Tar Pits, or unable to compete in their respective bowling leagues due to wrist-lock, have decided to kill time by issuing a formal apology to the descendants of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Today in “On the Square,” George Weigel pays tribute to “one of the greatest of American Jesuits and the living embodiment of Catholic liberal learning at Georgetown.” He means Father James Schall, and this is very high praise. (Earned, I will add on the testimony of many . . . . Continue Reading »
Stanley Fish considers whether religion should be given special status in a liberal society : There’s the dilemma, and it is shared both by the liberal state and by religious organizations. Religious organizations face a choice between altering their core beliefs or forfeiting privileges . . . . Continue Reading »
For the Catholics: Our loyal advertiser Ignatius Press has dozens of titles on sale , including books by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Arinze, Russell Shaw, Thomas Howard, Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar, George Marlin, Joseph Pearce, Josef Pieper, Fr. Benedict Groeschel, . . . . Continue Reading »
During his presidential claim Barack Obama asserted that future generations would say that “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal . . . ” At the time I thought the claim was hubristic. But he was right! The oil slick in the Gulf . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I’ll be cornswaggled! Richard Dawkins disdains the moral implications of human exceptionalism—for example, he yearns for the discovery of a human/chimp hybrid species that could interbreed with us to “break the species barrier.”But even though he . . . . Continue Reading »
Is it wrong to speak as though favoring religious freedom and opposing slavery are basic Christian principles? Yes, says S.M. Hutchens of Touchstone , a signer of the Manhattan Declaration (henceforth ‘MD’). At the magazine’s blog Mere Comments , Hutchens criticizes MD for making . . . . Continue Reading »
Tomorrow in “On the Square,” Elizabeth Marquardt of the Institute of American Values reviews the cheerful new movie about children conceived from donor sperm, The Kids Are All Right . The reality, she suggests from her own studies, which produced the ground-breaking study My . . . . Continue Reading »
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