Ruth signed me up to be the surprise family reader at Grace’s kindergarten class on Friday. I showed up the end of lunch and Grace was thrilled to see me. As was the rest of her class. When a parent shows up, they all act star struck, as if Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt had suddenly arrived.We . . . . Continue Reading »
Imagine being so destitute that you are willing to rent your womb for gestation—and then give up the child that you have nurtured to birth. Imagine being so well off, you pay another woman to do your gestating—perhaps because you can’t carry a child, but also perhaps because . . . . Continue Reading »
Leo Strauss’s “Progress or Return” was on my mind this morning as I listened to NPR’s Weekend Edition. (I had re-read Strauss’s great essay this week with a class of students.) Unsurprisingly, there were stories and issues on the latter that might be illuminated by . . . . Continue Reading »
Several years ago my friend and former colleague Paul Marshall wrote a review of Jim Wallis’ God’s Politics for The Review of Faith & International Affairs: Jim Wallis’ Politics — or Lack Thereof. Marshall’s paragraph below is worth rereading:Obviously, no popular . . . . Continue Reading »
In the news: Man Convicted of Impersonating Scholar . How could they tell? Instapundit’s funny snark : “SHOCKINGLY, NOT MICHAEL BELLESILES.” . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Cashvertise The average 100 USD Note is circulating for 7.4 years, it changes hands on average 3x per week, so each ad on a 100 USD note is seen by more then 1000 persons. I would say, this can easily be sold at 5 USD/note. The other notes are much shorter in circulation: $1: 1.8 years $5: 1.3 . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend Joan Frawley Desmond has reviewed the new movie Never Let Me Go on the Catholic site Headline Bistro . Written by Kazuo Ishiguro — the British writer that earned global fame with The Remains of the Day , a riveting story of a class-bound butler in pre-war England — Never Let Me . . . . Continue Reading »
The tyrannical impulses of global warming hysteria are clear and undeniable—whether it is NYT columnist Tom Friedman’s boy crush on the totalitarian Chinese Government’s ability to go green without impediment, some pushing for radical depopulation, and the expressed desire to . . . . Continue Reading »
It seems that just weeks before the general election that old leftist rag, Time Magazine, has flushed out evidence of militant, right wing, militia types running around my neck of the woods: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516,00.html As it turns out about fifteen years . . . . Continue Reading »
A wise father gives good advice to his children.My oldest joins the scores of Torrey Honors students who have spent a semester taking classes in the excellent Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities exchange program in Oxford. As a good father, I have tried to do research in order to give . . . . Continue Reading »
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