Ilya Shapiro and Caitlyn W. McCarthy, both of the Cato Institute, have a short paper in the John Marshall Law Review on the Citizens United case, addressing in particular the issue of whether corporations should count as “real persons” for First Amendment purposes. Reviewing the Supreme . . . . Continue Reading »
The Canadian (conservative) bioethicist Margaret Somerville has a good piece on the problems with transhumanism, the futurist movement that presumes to “seize control” of human evolution to create a “post human species.” She hits some points I have repeatedly . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , Lutheran pastor Russell E. Saltzman shares stories of comforting the dying: I have been called to numerous death beds, and I would like to say I have learned many things about the dignity of Christian death, but I cannot say so. Death is an indignity of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Owen Strachan on men, temptation, and the Gospe l: Arnold Schwarzenegger, father of a “love child ,” and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, long-time seducer and brutalizer of a hotel maid , join a long list of prominent modern men who have failed terribly as family men and leaders. If we . . . . Continue Reading »
Jason’s post below puts me on the side of the primacy of CULTURE, and our friends from Claremont (THE WEST COAST STRAUSSIANS) on the side of the primacy of POLITICS. (I want to thank Jason and the gracious Mr. Kienker for their positive publicity.) I’m not sure I’m quite either. . . . . Continue Reading »
Since I mentioned the article on the Catholicism of Marshall McLuhan , I’ve been apprised of two more worthy essays about the Canadian thinker. In The New Atlantis , Alan Jacobs asks why we should bother with McLuhan : I have been reading McLuhan off and on since, at age sixteen, I bought a . . . . Continue Reading »
John B. Kienker, managing editor of Claremont Review of Books, has a positive review of Peter’s Modern and American Dignity in the June/July issue of First Things. He concludes the piece with this friendly criticism: Ultimately, however, Lawler finds mere political . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan Salam notes Tim Pawlenty’s miserable results in a recent national poll. Pawlenty is losing to Gingrich, Cain, Santorum, and Ron Paul. Salam finds it interesting that this collection of . . . idiosyncratic people are all beating the guy running as a . . . . Continue Reading »
An update on the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod’s understanding of Catholicism, which may now be the most famous theological claim in America, which I mentioned in Monday’s Michele Bachmann, the Anti-Christ, and the Political Theologian . The Christian Post reports that the . . . . Continue Reading »
Amazon is having a big sale on Kindle ebooks . With 946 to choose from, ranging in price from $0.99-3.99, you’re bound to find something to add to your reading list. While you’re there be sure to pick up a Kindle subscription to First Things . (Via: Reformissionary ) . . . . Continue Reading »
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