Trevin Wax lists ten reasons he’s optimistic about being pro-life : 10. Recent Polls A majority of Americans surveyed in a Rasmussen national poll say they believe abortion is morally wrong, a number that includes a large percentage of people who call themselves “pro-choice”. Last . . . . Continue Reading »
Note: Family Facts in an occasional series of data presentations about family and religious practice and analysis of their role in maintaining civil society. . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s an exciting new project called Theological Engagement with California Culture that is taking its first steps toward coming to terms with the entity that is California. Of course I think it’s exciting; it’s partly my idea to get this thing going. I’ve lived in . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend and writer Mary Eberstadt sends a link to a short National Review Online symposium on Lenten reading . We’ll borrow the idea and ask you to supply the one book (one) you’d recommend for Lenten reading this Lent. Not books for general improvement or edification, but . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s almost a game. An unusual weather event happens and the GWHs leap to the conclusion that this is EXACTLY WHAT WE PREDICTED from global warming! Think, Katrina. Think the recent arctic weather. Think the Russian heatwave of 2010.And yet, it usually turns out not to be . . . . Continue Reading »
A court in the UK has protected the job of a believer in animal rights on the basis of the legal ban against religious discrimination. From the story:A prominent animal rights campaigner yesterday won a landmark ruling that his beliefs should be protected from discrimination at work in . . . . Continue Reading »
I just returned from the noon Mass at a nearby church, where the priest imposed the ashes with the traditional opening “Remember, O man.” Which cheered me, which may not be quite the feeling one wants on Ash Wednesday. It reminded me of something I wrote a few years ago for an . . . . Continue Reading »
Normally I would’t post a video of a Congressman giving a speech in an empty House of Representatives because (a) I don’t normally care what Congressmen have to say, (b) I don’t think most people normally care what Congressmen have to say, and (c) if their fellow legislators . . . . Continue Reading »
Eugenics is both profoundly wrong and extremely dangerous in that it divides human beings into better and worse categories, which leads to great evil; oppression, exploitation, and killing.We saw that with the first eugenics, invented by the English statistician Francis Galton, who posited a . . . . Continue Reading »
After years of incessant whining and pleading, my dad finally caved in on my tenth birthday. If I would agree to finally shut up about it and not tell my mother, he’d let me start drinking coffee. Thrilled to have tiptoed inside the outer realm of adult pleasures, I poured myself a big cup of . . . . Continue Reading »
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