Joe Paterno has been fired as football coach at Penn State. It happened at about 10 pm yesterday. News reports say he was notified of his dismissal by phone. The situation evokes grief over all that has been lost, astonishment over the absurd disproportionality of it all, and of course outrage over . . . . Continue Reading »
Many conservative pundits can only say the words “social justice” while sneering. Fortunately, Ryan Anderson isn’t one of them. Here he takes two prominent conservative public intellectuals—Peter Wehner and Arthur Brooks—to the woodshed for the . . . . Continue Reading »
For the past few days I’ve been trying, without success, to make sense of the disgusting spectacle at Penn State. My reaction can be summed up in one word: inexplicable. The actions of Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, Graham Spanier, Mike McQueary, the rioting Penn State students—all of it is . . . . Continue Reading »
The compliance specialist from Buffalo, N.Y., who became prime minister of Somalia has got nothing on this guy. From King Zog: Self-Made Monarch of Albania (p. 66): The new regime in Tirana was a motley coalition of liberals, Kosovars, opposition beys, and mutineers, united by antipathy to Zogu. . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an interesting how-do-you-do. A crisis in the emergency care for the poor may be heading for a free market solution. From the NYT story:Only a few private hospitals have survived in neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville and Bushwick to serve poor patients like them. . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column, Russell E. Saltzman remembers that history is made of common people : Hans and Inga, fictional names, got married. It happened so often hardly anybody took much note of it which is maybe why you never heard about it either. Hans and several thousand others like . . . . Continue Reading »
There has been some media buzz about a new test that appears to show some patients, previously diagnosed as unaware (persistent vegetative state), can actually perceive. From the New Scientist story:Owen and his team used an EEG on 16 people thought to be in a PVS and compared the . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: This is my annual post in honor of the Marine Corps birthday.] Today marks the 236th birthday of the finest fighting force in the history of the world. The Marine Corps Birthday makes me nostalgic for the good ol‚ . . . well, maybe good is too strong a word. In fact, I can’t say that I . . . . Continue Reading »
Canada now has a counterpart to First Things. It’s called Convivium, is edited by Peter Stockland and Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, and is published by the Cardus Centre for Cultural Renewal. The name comes from the homily Fr. de Souza preached at Fr. Richard John Neuhaus’s funeral.In each . . . . Continue Reading »
The Reckless, Profitable Elimination of Down Syndrome Public Discourse , Mark W. Leach Adult stem cell researchers gather for Vatican conference National Post , Jean-Louis de la Vaissiere Air Force Mortuary Sent Troop Remains to Landfill New York Times , Elisabeth Bumiller Mississippi’s . . . . Continue Reading »
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