I have been warning about this for years: Here’s the game that is afoot. Some among the same sector that once assured a nervous culture that vital organs are only procured from the truly dead, are now saying it was a ruse all along. Understand, this isn’t an ethical call . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , R.R. Reno considers the future of the European Union: From its beginnings in the early 1950s as a common market of coal and steel, post-war efforts to unify Europe have been based on the presumption that interlocking economic interests would lead to a new and . . . . Continue Reading »
An English teacher in the Bronx invites a pair of poets to speak at a high school assembly. The poets read a collaboration they wrote which includes “slurs against blacks and gays.” The students were then asked to write words on index cards—“remembrances, colors and references . . . . Continue Reading »
Five myths about the world’s population Washington Post , Nicholas Eberstadt Conservatives and Social Justice Public Discourse , Ryan Anderson The Birthright Challenge Jewish Review of Books , Philip Getz Teen ‘sexting’ common and linked to psychological woes USA Today , Lisa . . . . Continue Reading »
Rod Dreher has some useful advice for how to make sure your child does not grow up to be religious : Make sure they never learn that many brilliant men and women throughout history and even today — scientists, philosophers, artists and others — were and are religious believers. Children . . . . Continue Reading »
So the reason you’ve been missing me is that I just attended a really intensive John Adams Center conference at BYU. The conference was on the family—and included all kinds of incredible presentations. Paul Rahe turns out to be quite the defender of the traditional family from many . . . . Continue Reading »
Ross Douthat really nails it. Many of our governing elites (personified by Jon Corzine) are, for all of their alleged intelligence and sophistication, engines of destruction. They don’t know what they can’t control and end up producing chaos. . . . . Continue Reading »
I knew this was true, but it is nice to see someone so close to the Obama Administration, namely Ezekiel Emanuel, say it. Emanuel used to be the head bioethicist at the NIH and was one of President Obama’s primary advisers on healthcare issues. He is now a professor of . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times has a sickening story on how badly helpless and vulnerable people with develomental disabilities are treated in state care. (This is an issue I have seen first hand, once caring for a developmentally disabled man who was terribly abused while in state care.) From, . . . . Continue Reading »
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