I’ve been away, 1. How come this hasn’t gotten more play? In an interview where Palin was asked who she would support for President she said: You know, if there are those who are out there willing to serve, with good executive experience, who have that servant’s heart . . . . Continue Reading »
David Brooks has a very thoughtful column on the fact that a lot of soaring health care costs have to do using all means available to keep very sick people alive just a little bit longer. Following Daniel Callahan, Brooks notices that the progress toward indefinite longevity encouraged particularly . . . . Continue Reading »
My first thought on reading the emerging discussion on David Brooks ’ column is: Obviously Brooks is thinking through the lens of a limited anthropology, but he’s an interlocutor worth engaging. Let’s pull apart some of what it says and see where it leads. For example: the . . . . Continue Reading »
David Brooks’ column today on life and death is thought-provoking but ambiguous at several important points. It’s not clear whether, along with Dudley Clendinen , Brooks denies the value of life with diminished capacities or whether he simply thinks patients should sometimes choose to . . . . Continue Reading »
David Brooks has a column in today’s NYT that offends on several levels. But I want to focus here on the prejudicial language he uses to describe people with quadriplegia. From his column : Life is not just breathing and existing as a self-enclosed skin bag. It’s doing the . . . . Continue Reading »
Joseph Stiglitz, a winner of the Nobel Prize in economics and a professor at Columbia University, writes in Vanity Fair that income inequality in the United States has become so extreme that the people may soon rise in the streets the way they have in Tunisia and Egypt. That’s rather . . . . Continue Reading »
NYT columnist David Brooks often disappoints, but he has an awful column out today that not only exhibits (I hope an unintended) loathing of people who are living with serious disabilities, but which could also be fairly construed as the early spade work for establishing a duty to die among those . . . . Continue Reading »
Sarah Pulliam Bailey explains why many former Potter-bashers are warming to the Hogwarts crew : In its early years, “Harry Potter” was a litmus test of orthodoxy for some conservative Christians, who expressed concern over its portrayal of witchcraft. A Christian lawyer sued a public . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, well, well. The things you learn on these here Internets. Seems that Lutherans no likey the pope. And Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann used to be a Lutheran , a WELSian more precisely (not to be confused with us Wellsians ), and so is tainted by the intolerant . . . . Continue Reading »
Death and Budgets , New York Times (David Brooks) Employment and Social Justice , Public Discourse (Randall Smith) On Overcoming the Sin of Human Respect through the Fear of the Lord , Archdiocese of Washington Blog (Msgr. Charles Pope) The Year of School Choice , Wall Street Journal Why Religious . . . . Continue Reading »
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