Almost every week there is a fresh lament about the rising cost of college tuition or how liberal arts graduates can’t find adequate employment. Rather than add my own addition to the genre I thought I’d try a different approach and solve both problems (at least partially). But first, my . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week Joe highlighted Matt Franck’s Public Discourse article ” Is Sex Just Like Race? ” Matt was responding to the law professor who claims that the Catholic University of America is practicing segregation by returning to single-sex dormitories. But readers should also take . . . . Continue Reading »
Bioethicist Daniel Callahan has an interesting bit out at the Hastings Center blog. He says the term “immoral” is way overused in bioethical debates. As an example, he notes that he opposes proposed cuts in the “safety net,” but says that those who disagree with him are . . . . Continue Reading »
In America you can have religious liberty or you can have homosexuality be a protected class of “minority”—but you can’t have both. And when they conflict, guess which one will lose out ? The state has declined to renew its foster care and adoption contracts with Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »
Sign of the times of the day: When the city of Cambridge issues paychecks to its public employees, nearly two dozen workers find a federal tax on their income that their colleagues don’t have to pay. Like many people, these 22 school and city workers chose to put their spouses on their . . . . Continue Reading »
My “Rock n’ Roll Patriotism” 4th of July post was meant to be fun little confection of you-tube music, a music-lover’s way to show the colors. But Peter got me thinking again . . . so look out! He commented: “How much we can be proud of this is questionable: No blues and . . . . Continue Reading »
So I caught some of Pawlenty’s line of criticism against Bacmann. He is saying that Bachmann has no accomplishments to speak of. That is fair enough, but it won’t help Pawlenty as much as he thinks. People still know (or think they know) that Bachmann is principled and . . . . Continue Reading »
I know that Joe mentioned this piece in his Friday ” First Links ” post, but it bears noticing again: Scott Walter’s column ” Hoyas Whip the Irish ,” at The Catholic Thing. Scott catalogues what he can, in fewer than 1,000 words, of the appallingly un-Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »
Though not as good as it might have been (see Thomas Hibbs’ percipient review ), Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris is a refreshing step down from the nihilistic soapbox. The lesson—in case we’d miss it—is pedantically spelled out: Beware “Golden Age syndrome,” the . . . . Continue Reading »
I love empirical confirmation of my views, especially when I wasn’t expecting it. You may recall that I recently wrote an article for On the Square defending the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association , which struck down on First Amendment grounds a . . . . Continue Reading »
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