It looks like the Republican National Committee might be planning to “limit the number of debates and taking steps so that the forum is friendlier.” I think making the presidential debate forum “friendlier” is a mistake. A “friendly” debate allows snake oil . . . . Continue Reading »
“Strong, oddly cautious, a bit common (how cd he not be with those parents?) but unemotional, terre à terre, tough, quick, independent, ruthless, soulless, gifted, serious, anxious to pick up whatever he can.” So wrote Isaiah Berlin to his wife after meeting John Kennedy. The letter . . . . Continue Reading »
Members of Mullet’s settlement wait to make their pleas ( Associated Press ). From the Cleveland Plain Dealer : Federal prosecutors today [February 5] urged a judge to sentence Amish bishop Samuel Mullet to life in prison for coordinating a series of beard-cutting attacks on victims who . . . . Continue Reading »
On one hand, boomer-age cultured (i.e., liberally-educated) conservatives who don’t know contemporary pop culture and are too lazy about learning anything about it; on the other, young liberals who know it but are unashamedly un-cultured (i.e., rejecting the canonical distinctions that genuine . . . . Continue Reading »
I once heard the story of a women named Kara Walton , of Claymont, Delaware who “sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room . . . . Continue Reading »
In a statement released today on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York and president of the Conference, responded to last Friday’s proposed revision of the HHS contraception/sterilization/abortifacient mandate by saying, in . . . . Continue Reading »
Leroy Huizenga on banning contraception : “Ban Contraception?” the banner ad said, urging viewers to click it in order to tell Congress to “support women’s health!” The suggestion that cultural conservatives want to make birth control illegal is risible. Most social . . . . Continue Reading »
Friedrich Nietzsche by Edvard Munch Following up on Peter Blair’s post that we linked to yesterday , Sarah Ngu writes at Fare Forward about the shortcomings of the typical Christian arguments against relativism. “Relativizing the relativizer” only works if the relativist . . . . Continue Reading »
Today at Public Discourse , I discuss the Obama administration’s latest puff of smoke trying to sell its “compromise” on mandating employer coverage of sterilization, contraception, and abortifacients, in “ Deciding Who Gets Religious Freedom .” Here’s a sample: . . . . Continue Reading »
Last call for applications to The Lumen Christi Institute for Catholic Thought at the University of Chicago 5th Annual Summer Seminars in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition for Graduate Students “The Thought of John Henry Newman” June 17-21 Oriel College, University of Oxford . . . . Continue Reading »
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