This will not be the first time that First Thoughts readers have heard from me on the virtues of Mr. Lionel Trilling , but readers interested in learning more about one of America’s greatest critics and intellectuals can check out my piece in today’s Wall Street Journal . . . . . Continue Reading »
OWS: Kermit is the new Che The American Conservative , Rod Dreher New Jersey nurses’ suit over abortions heads to court Associated Press Poll finds young adults optimistic, but not about money Los Angeles Times , Alexa Vaughn Vote on federal marriage law repeal put off Washington Times , . . . . Continue Reading »
Christopher White points out that contraception is not the most powerful way to promote maternal health: What about those women and girls in Africa who, as Kristof mentions, “have never heard of birth control”? Won’t they be faced with unwanted pregnancies and possibly die during . . . . Continue Reading »
An ad campaign by Ogilvy Atlanta shows the true face of the Boy Scouts : After decades of showing nothing but beardless Scouts, it’s refreshing to see ads that show what the young campers really look like after spending time in the woods. I remember that when I was twelve we’d come off . . . . Continue Reading »
New Jersey nurses won a temporary restraining order against being forced to participate in abortion. From the AP story:A New Jersey hospital says it will temporarily stop requiring nurses to assist in performing abortions if they object on religious grounds. A group of nurses filed suit . . . . Continue Reading »
Hwang Woo suk, the Korean fraudster, faked human cloning and was published in Science, which only reluctantly moved to retract, perhaps because the editors wanted it to be true. (Amazingly, a court just ruled that Hwang was wrongly fired after his fraud!) And now another science charlatan has been . . . . Continue Reading »
The European Union’s right to “family life” is being used for potentially pernicious purposes. For example, as we discussed several months ago, the European Court of Human Rights has taken a case that will decide whether the right includes to make a family member dead . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , Joe Carter explains the “mutual help” model of marriage: The institution of marriage, under this model, becomes the joining together in a one-flesh union of two individuals, a physical embodiment of the mysterious paradox of unity and diversity. . . . . Continue Reading »
On the plus side: the Atlanta Diocese of the Episcopal Church is taking on a substantive theological question concerning the patristic heritage of the church. On the negative side: well, let’s listen in : Whereas the historical record of Pelagius’s contribution to our theological . . . . Continue Reading »
John Stuart Mill apparently once (at least once) referred to the Tories as the stupid party, a label some are also quick to apply to contemporary conservatives and Republicans here in the U.S. What Mill meant, and what his self-conscious and unself-conscious followers mean is at least this: . . . . Continue Reading »
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