Our sense of entitlement—including not only to have a child, but the child we want—is driving us to ever greater extremes. The Daily Mail has a disturbing report about beautiful women selling eggs, rich men’s sperm, and paid destitute gestational carriers—you know, the . . . . Continue Reading »
SHSer Don Nelson emails me a quote from the May 4 Kiplinger Newsletter. (No link):A severe doctor shortage is looming: Over the next decade, a 45,000 deficit of primary care physicians and a similar lack of surgeons and specialists. Some specialties will decline, despite growing demand from an aging . . . . Continue Reading »
Ross Douthat on the Obama campaign’s telling “Julia” slideshow: The liberalism of “the Life of Julia” doesn’t envision government spending the way an older liberalism did — as a backstop for otherwise self-sufficient working families, providing insurance . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Gospel Coalition , Joe Carter points to a piece in Religion & Politics in which Molly Worthen examines a curious phenomenon among American evangelical Christians: Anglophilia. Worthen notes that, in addition to the late John Stott, evangelicals seem to naturally gravitate . . . . Continue Reading »
Libby A. Nelson at Inside Higher Ed weighs in on the conflict and compromise that many Catholic universities are increasingly faced with today. The article covers much more, but mentions the controversies involved in institutional recognition of public figures whose moral commitments . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THOUGHTS HERE . They, of course, are far from really serious and are very much indebted to Carl’s world-class post. . . . . Continue Reading »
What the Church’s Educational Institutions Should Acknowledge Patrick Brennan, Mirror of Justice “For Many” or “For All”? Sandro Magister, La Stampa Biden “Comfortable” with Same-Sex Marriage Brian Knowlton, The Caucus The Beginning of the End of the Unpaid . . . . Continue Reading »
I reported here a few weeks ago that the NYT’s Dear Abby-type column, “The Ethicist,” was holding an essay contest to descsribe why eating meat is ethical—judged by Peter Singer—who I noted elsewhere, has no business judging anyone’s ethics—and other . . . . Continue Reading »
It is very tempting sometimes to fall back on the Nazi analogy. And occasionally, there is a legitimate equivalence, as in the call for euthanizing disabled infants, which was not specifically a “Nazi” program but promoted enthusiastically by a German medical establishment that had . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the GWH’s gig: Economic downturn and even depression to “save the planet.” A new study claims that an economic contraction equivalent to the Great Depression is needed to keep us real cool. From the Science Daily story:The study, conducted by José Tapia Granados . . . . Continue Reading »
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