Here are the latest. Newt now has a huge lead in Iowa and South Carolina, and is within spitting distance in New Hampshire (the victory in Iowa would give him the big mo’ required actually to spit, it would seem). So nobody has voted yet, but the question of stopping Newt is really insistent . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend Stanley Carlson-Thies writes in his invaluable newsletter (subscribe here) that many (including some of us ) have unfortunately followed our newspapers in misstating the scope of the opposition to the contraceptive mandate. Here’s what the (Protestant) Council for Christian . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember when the U.S. aided the establishment of a theocracy in Afghanistan ? Here is what we helped to create : Lawyers in Afghanistan recently came to the conclusion that the best way to strike a plea bargain for a rape victim is to grant her the option to marry the man who raped her. This . . . . Continue Reading »
So, which is it? Is ” mainstream bioethics” a “come let us reason together” learned discourse in which respected colleagues explore differing views and ethical outlooks, as some in the movement suggest? Or, is it actually, as I opined in Culture of Death: The . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square feature, Howard Kainz notes that some atheist philosophers of science have joined with Intelligent Design theorists in the criticizing neo-Darwinism : Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, in What Darwin Got Wrong come at neo-Darwinism from a . . . . Continue Reading »
I just came across this fascinating article by a Christian engineer, Jace Yarbrough, about “why we don’t have more engineers.” The shortage of good engineers has been the subject of intense effort for decades, yet the supply has stubbornly refused to increase. In addition to . . . . Continue Reading »
We are given to understand that many religions have something akin to prayer beads to assist the devout in saying their prayers. The rosary is one such aid used especially by Roman Catholics. However, it seems that the prayers accompanying the rosary long ago supplanted the Psalms for the use of . . . . Continue Reading »
The Sex Addiction Epidemic Newsweek , Chris Lee Key Task for Catholic Higher Ed Inside Higher Education , Rev. Gregory Kalscheur The Ethics of Quantitative Easing: A Catholic Perspective Comment , Charles Clark Legal Battle Ignites Over Jesus Statue in Montana New York Times , Dan Frosch . . . . Continue Reading »
Conor Friedersdorf has some serious reservations about the Tea Party’s constitutional conservatism, praised by Yuval Levin, which I’ve already discussed here . Better to be governed by a “constitutional conservative” than a populist or technocrat, or so I’d argue. But . . . . Continue Reading »
A Christian woman in the U.K. claims she lost her job after being targeted by Islamic extremists : Nohad Halawi, who worked at Heathrow Airport, is suing her former employers for unfair dismissal, claiming that she and other Christian staff at the airport were victims of systematic harassment . . . . Continue Reading »
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