Photo: ©Paul M.R. Maeyaert. The Ghent Altarpiece, or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb , by Jan van Eyck is considered the first great painting of the Renaissance—and apparently the most coveted : It’s the size of a barn door, weighs more than an elephant, and is one of the most famous . . . . Continue Reading »
I know the Chronicles of Narnia are not straightforward allegory, but I also know that the stone table of Aslan is the cross of Christ (depending on what the meaning of “is” is). And without any cramming or reductionism, astute readers can follow the imagination of C.S. Lewis as it maps . . . . Continue Reading »
ROFTER Yair Rosenberg sends the following: Google Books has a new feature which allows one to graph the occurrence of particular words or phrases and track how frequently they appear in a given literary corpus over the last century. Using this tool, I have managed to encapsulate our . . . . Continue Reading »
As promised, I checked into the testimony given in Scotland that claimed C & C created Oregon’s annual statistics. The state has responded and denied it is true. From the e-mail I received:The Act requires the Oregon Department of Human Services (currently named the Oregon Health . . . . Continue Reading »
The bureaucracy promulgated a rule paying doctors for end of life counseling. The original Obamacare legislation had provisions in this regard, which were taken out in order to pass the final bill. I was going to comment on it here at SHS, but The Corner asked my views, so I did it . . . . Continue Reading »
Reproduction, we are now told, is a fundamental right. That sounds good. We don’t want government preventing people from having children.But under this theory, the right to reproduce has become more than just the right to have children. Women who don’t want their babies can . . . . Continue Reading »
Reproduction, we are now told, is a fundamental right. That sounds good. We don’t want government preventing people from having children. But under this theory, the right to reproduce has become more than just the right to have children. Women who don’t want their babies can . . . . Continue Reading »
New York is digging out from a big snowstorm, which means a quiet day at the office, allowing me to catch up on some of my reading, including Verbum Domini , the Apostolic Exhortation concerning scripture and interpretation put out by Pope Benedict last fall. There’s lots of rich material . . . . Continue Reading »
I have a piece in today’s San Francisco Chronicle urging my fellow Californians to turn a deaf ear to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s insistence we continue to borrow money—as the good ship California sinks beneath waves of red ink—to fund its luxurious . . . . Continue Reading »
I wonder what Rene Girard would make of this Smithsonian magazine article on the history of snowmen being treated as scapegoats: Some of these early postcards show snowmen being bludgeoned by two-by-fours and stomped on by tots. There are examples of snowmen being held up by gunpoint by . . . . Continue Reading »
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