E.J. Dionne, Jr. and William A. Galston—two very smart liberal public intellectuals—have produced a most interesting analysis of religion and the 2010 elections , based in part on the network exit polls and in part on a post-election survey they helped design. Some of what they have to . . . . Continue Reading »
Some friends have been challenging my reasoning. (I know, I know, it’s hard to imagine anyone challenging my reasoning, but who can account for the recklessness of one’s friends?) On Thursday I wrote about Fr. Raymond Schroth’s proposed one-state solution to the Israel/Palestinian . . . . Continue Reading »
Like me, you’ve probably recently asked yourself, “If FirstThings.com were a country, how populated would it be?” Fortunately, the good people at Sharenator have a tool that shows the size of media empires. According to them, if Firstthings.com were a country, it would be larger . . . . Continue Reading »
Last November, I was invited to Scotland to speak against assisted suicide and debate it at Holyrood (the parliament), the University of Glasgow, and at a large public forum in Edinburgh. The idea was for me to come to Scotland and hopefully soften the ground as the first step in a . . . . Continue Reading »
A growing number of Americans believe that marriage is becoming an obsolete institution : Marriage is increasingly optional and could be on its way to obsolescence,according to a survey of more than 2,600 Americans that examines changing attitudes about relationships today. Among the 2,691 adults . . . . Continue Reading »
I read a shocking story today that one in five Americans experienced a mental illness last year. From the story:More than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness last year, and 11 million had a serious illness, U.S. government researchers reported on . . . . Continue Reading »
The position on the likely future borders of Israel offered by our colleague R. R. Reno in his “On the Square” article yesterday is, argues David Goldman in his “On the Square” article today, “very different from the position of the present Israeli government, or . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: Every Friday on First Thoughts we host a discussion about some aspect of popular culture. For the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting lists of the best of 2010.] With an estimated 200 million active blogs written in the English language, choosing the best blogs of the year is a . . . . Continue Reading »
Kurt Cardinal Koch is the new Vatican head of ecumenical relations, responsible among other things for relations with the Jews. The Swiss cleric replaces Walter Cardinal Kasper, whom I praised for his frankness and sincerity on this site earlier this year.The acid test issue for Jewish-Christian . . . . Continue Reading »
Things have gone from the ridiculous to the surreal in the UK ever since the Law Lords ordered England’s public prosecutor to tell folk when assisted suicide would and would not be prosecuted. That helped foster the belief among some that suicide is a necessity, and certainly promoted . . . . Continue Reading »
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