I will be tomorrow (Thursday) at Notre Dame. The time is 7:30 p.m. and the place is Debartolo 129. And I’ll be speaking in Dallas at the Adolphus Hotel on Saturday afternoon. (For more details, go to the ISI website). YOU are invited to both events free of charge. The topic in both cases will . . . . Continue Reading »
In many cultures in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world there is a strikingly different approach to sexuality and the interactions between men and women. These cultures feature an emphasis on honor and shame as well as well as being on the other side of the individual/collective axis from . . . . Continue Reading »
Several years ago I wrote a short piece on this topic which appeared in Comment, the publication of the Canadian think tank Cardus. Here is an excerpt:Must the pursuit of social justice be tethered to statist solutions? Not necessarily. This is where I believe neocalvinism has much to offer as an . . . . Continue Reading »
There has been much talk on Evangel lately about social justice. Here is an upcoming book from Moody Publishers that sounds promising.Humanitarian JesusSocial Justice and the Crossby Ryan DobsonA resurgence of the Social Gospel is energizing many evangelicals, but what does the Bible say about the . . . . Continue Reading »
The warning sirens are blaring, but will we listen? Centralized health care planning doesn’t work. In the UK, the NHS hospitals have an abysmal record on something as basic as hygiene. From the story:A quarter of health trusts failed to meet standards over hospital infections while . . . . Continue Reading »
Roll Call has just reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked all female Democratic members of Congress “to attend a hastily called meeting Wednesday morning.” She hasn’t said what the meeting is about, but presumably it concerns passage of the health-care bill. At a . . . . Continue Reading »
This is very alarming. A survey—published in the New England Journal of Medicine!, not a conservative blog site—found that huge numbers of doctors worry they will be forced—or will want—to leave medicine if Obamacare passes. From the story:Health Reform and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Awl points out this interview with Tina Brown . At about 19:40, Brown asks: “Are we building this new sort of subculture frankly of impoverished, living in garret writers? Because the fact is writers can hardly make a living right now because they don’t get paid.” Leon . . . . Continue Reading »
Political junkies rejoice! C-Span now offers free online access to the more than 160,000 hours(!) of television footage. Some policy nerds may be nostalgic for Dee Dee Myers-era White House briefings or Congressional budget reconciliation meetings. But for the rest of us, the archive offers an . . . . Continue Reading »
Regular readers of SHS will recall that I was honored to be asked by the United Nations International School to lecture at a two day bioethics conference it held for about 700 students from all around the world. My theme was the importance of intrinsic human dignity in bioethics.Part of the . . . . Continue Reading »
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