This is the sharpest (and strangest) example I’ve ever seen of how to explain that nonsensical performance art is not really art at all: The segment that made the greatest impression was that about Marco Evaristti. This fellow had his fat liposuctioned, turned into meatballs, canned and then . . . . Continue Reading »
Ever been stuck in traffic behind a car displaying this annoying bumper sticker? If so, you’ll want to read Jake Hunt’s dissection of what it really means . (Via: The Corner ) . . . . Continue Reading »
What a hoot!Part 2:And the finale:Those bad winters seem like the current one. Oh, oh!Dr. Stephen Schneider, who appears at the end of the video to worry that the cure for the ice age might be worse than the disease, is now a global warming alarmist. Ha!HT: . . . . Continue Reading »
A book based on presentations made two years or so ago at the Holocaust Museum of Houston has been released, by the name of Medicine After the Holocaust. I have a chapter on assisted suicide, which is a written version of my presentation at a public debate—link below—against Compassion . . . . Continue Reading »
The Big Hollywood blogger and actor Adam Baldwin, recently of the television series Chuck and Firefly, has taken up his virtual pen to defend Britt Hume from those who have criticized him for suggesting that Tiger Woods should consider Christianity in his time of crisis. Hume made the . . . . Continue Reading »
The subject of torture is once again being widely addressed—at least in certain segments of the blogosphere. But while bloggers and other pundits have entered the fray, the Christian intellectual community has been relatively silent. In the Fall of 2006, Justin Taylor and I decided to host an . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: This online symposium originally appeared on Evangelical Outpost in November 2006.] “Torture is not always impermissible,” argues Charles Krauthammer in “The Truth About Torture,” his provocative essay in The Weekly Standard. “However rare the cases, there are . . . . Continue Reading »
In a recent Weekly Standard article, “The Truth about Torture,” Charles Krauthammer has questioned the coherence of the McCain amendment passed by the Senate by a vote of 90-9, ostensibly banning under all circumstances “cruel, inhuman, or degrading” treatment of any . . . . Continue Reading »
In his Weekly Standard article, “The Truth about Torture” (December 5, 2005), Charles Krauthammer responds to arguments made by Senator John McCain and codified in the McCain amendment, which would prohibit any “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment” of any prisoner in . . . . Continue Reading »
Self-preservation is not the ultimate value underlying Christian ethics, and recognition of that fact must underlie any attempt to articulate a Christian response to torture. The specter of terrorists holding information that could save thousands of lives does not alter or eviscerate the . . . . Continue Reading »
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