Career. Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory ... decided my major. Personal Knowledge ... more recently set the stage for my thinking on philosophy of science.Religion Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings locked in my falling away from the church. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy brought . . . . Continue Reading »
Apropos of my remarks below , a reader writes: It seems to me that you’re taking his quote about the politicization out of context, first of all. He’s downright Aristotelian, it seems to me, in his conception of what politics is. What makes me say this is the role he sees marriage . . . . Continue Reading »
Excellent words from Dr. Russell Moore:“Now these three abide: anger, outrage, and fear—and the greatest of these is fear.”That’s not in the Bible.But sometimes I wonder if I think it is.The United States House of Representatives just passed a health care reform bill that I . . . . Continue Reading »
Pelosi, Obama, and Friends would like this “health care” legislation assessed as though it is independent of the broader goals of the administration. But this administration, and the Congress that does his bidding, plans for this nation which must not be divorced from the whole — . . . . Continue Reading »
Stories like the one I discuss below are ubiquitous. Indeed, my first hospice patient (I was a volunteer) got kicked out because he unexpectedly got better. But when he entered the program, he wailed in my arms that he wanted to die immediately because he was a burden. Under . . . . Continue Reading »
The nuns are giving the Democrats cover. As Bob Casey, an abortion opponent who helped negotiate the abortion language in the Senate bill, observed, quoting Scripture: ‘They care for ‘the least, the last and the lost.’ And they know health care. — Let’s hope those nuns are . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the title of this morning’s “Spengler” essay at Asia Times. I’ve never seen anything quite like this, except, of course, in Japan during the 1990s—but not on a global scale, and not with the world’s main reserve currency. The global banking system is . . . . Continue Reading »
Last night 219 members of in the House of Representatives proved what many of us have suspected for decades: Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton are the twin pillars of the Democratic Party. The refusal to prohibit federal funding of abortions in the health care bill shows that the Democratic leadership . . . . Continue Reading »
Meghan McArdle claims that with the passage of Obamacare we are in a different political world : One cannot help but admire Nancy Pelosi’s skill as a legislator. But it’s also pretty worrying. Are we now in a world where there is absolutely no recourse to the tyranny of the majority? . . . . Continue Reading »
I was going to post something on the latest dreadful new census commercial, but this will serve us all pretty nicely. . . . . Continue Reading »
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