Abortion Case Loses Ground, but Issue Stays Hot in Kansas New York Times , A. G. Sulzberger Smoking marijuana not a religious practice, judge tells Church of the Universe member National Post , Douglas Quan I was too old when I had my baby, says IVF mum aged 61 Daily Mail , Tom Kelly The Gospel . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay, here’s a shorter way, for those of you who haven’t the patience for my full cinemascopic link-littered prose, to get at what I mean by Intermediate Modernity In Book VIII Republic terms, intermediate-modernity was the era of the self-repressing Oligarchic Soul, and “the . . . . Continue Reading »
The strident attempt to silence the skeptics who question the popular thesis that humans are adversely affecting the earth’s climate hit a new high over the past couple of weeks with the release of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project (BEST) report from a group of scientists centered . . . . Continue Reading »
The Internet is the best and worst thing that could have happened to serious study, I wrote last time in this series. The benefit is in the sheer quantity of information available. The chief problem is distraction. There are other risks, including that of becoming a Google scholar.Studying the Bible . . . . Continue Reading »
All from Mr. Postmodern Conservative himself, of course, over at Ricochet. . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, the NYT carried a letter to the editor from an Obama Adminstration representative, reacting to a column published in the Gray Lady’s op/ed page that criticized the government’s crackdown on medical marijuana, an issue we have discussed here also at SHS. The letter . . . . Continue Reading »
I was reading Ross Douthat this week and this observation struck me with some force, He wrote, “Policy innovation always creates losers as well as winners and earns adversaries as well as supporters. But policy innovation in an age of austerity tends to be politically perilous, because the . . . . Continue Reading »
On thanksgiving, just a few hours before black friday, i invite you to read a (longish) essay on gratitude, just published in the Policy Review. It has a section on the holiday of thanksgiving, and it previews, without exactly predicting, President Obama’s omission (according to news reports) . . . . Continue Reading »
Due to the holiday, we won’t have a new On the Square feature today. We’ll return with a new article (and blog posts) tomorrow. On behalf of the staff of First Things , we wish you all a safe and joyful Thanksgiving. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Christian Leadership Center at the University of Mary in North Dakota—-which is led by frequent On the Square contributor Leroy Huizenga—-is launching a new website on homiletics. An ecumenical endeavor involving Protestants and Catholics, it includes treatments of the Gospels, . . . . Continue Reading »
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