“I think I’ve wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time and I apologize for that.” — Glenn Beck apologizes for his interview with former Congressman Massa. “Yes, it’s true that you may like strawberry ice cream more than . . . . Continue Reading »
On Tuesday I mentioned Mary Eberstadt’s new book The Loser Letters . On Tuesday, March 16, she’ll be discussing her new work at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.: Eberstadt will discuss the two levels on which this satire operates, one religious and one . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Extreme Theology blog: I’ve been hosting my radio program for almost 2 years. One of the daily features of my program are the sermon reviews. Each week I review 3 to 4 sermons from seeker-driven / purpose-driven churches. I review them in their entirety and am generally mortified and . . . . Continue Reading »
Can a computer program produce classical music compositions that rival the works of Bach or Mozart? Emmy was once the world’s most advanced artificially intelligent composer, and because he’d managed to breathe a sort of life into her, he became a modern-day musical Dr. Frankenstein. She . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve written before about the ClimateGate scandal here as symptomatic of technocratic elitism or the current trend to exhaust all political experience and judgment into the categories of modern science. In other words, the problem is unrestrained scientism , or the view that science has a . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Scully’s nasty review—and my reply thereto—continues to bounce around at National Review. Yesterday, over at The Corner, Jason Steorts wondered where we differed on principle, and offered an opportunity for both of us to clarify our positions. Scully . . . . Continue Reading »
One thing critics of ancient cultures often miss is how easy “freedom” and “liberty” were to achieve in the ancient world and how hard order was to maintain.One could curse the king easily in the ancient world with almost no chance the king would ever hear of it! Any society . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a brief response to my critics, mostly Frank Turk.I think the heart of our disagreement is the Bible and how to read it. I think the Bible is true and binding on a Christian. If it says a thing, we must do it.Sadly, reading a book is not as easy as one might think. The Bible was written to a . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, duh: A new study reports that sexual activity declines as people age, and that people over 70 generally retire from sex. From the story:The average person’s sex life ends by the age of 70, according to a report published today in the British Medical Journal. Men age 30 have . . . . Continue Reading »
The Dutch parliament is currently considering legislation that would allow assisted suicide for anyone who has reached the age of seventy and has merely grown tired of living. In today’s On the Square feature I trace the recent history of euthanasia in the Netherlands that lead the formerly . . . . Continue Reading »
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