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 »
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has defended the appointment of socialized medicine and health care rationing fan, Dr. Donald Berwick, to head Medicare/Medicaid. As to Berwick’s advocacy of rationing, Hoyer punted, saying in essence, that care is already rationed. But it’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Is Noah Millman flirting with postmodern conservatism ? I report, you decide. . . . . Continue Reading »
Another day, another story about the dishonesty of the Obamacare sales job. Now, in a New York Times front pager, a study Obamacare boosters said demonstrated it would save money while improving care, turns out not to prove either. From the story:In selling the health care overhaul to . . . . Continue Reading »
For a hot summer day, the New York Times brings us the history of ” cool ” Already by the time of “Beowulf,” a millennium ago, the original low-temperature meaning of cool had veered into the realm of human emotion — or rather the lack thereof. From Old English to the . . . . Continue Reading »
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