This is very alarming. A survey—published in the New England Journal of Medicine!, not a conservative blog site—found that huge numbers of doctors worry they will be forced—or will want—to leave medicine if Obamacare passes. From the story:Health Reform and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Awl points out this interview with Tina Brown . At about 19:40, Brown asks: “Are we building this new sort of subculture frankly of impoverished, living in garret writers? Because the fact is writers can hardly make a living right now because they don’t get paid.” Leon . . . . Continue Reading »
Political junkies rejoice! C-Span now offers free online access to the more than 160,000 hours(!) of television footage. Some policy nerds may be nostalgic for Dee Dee Myers-era White House briefings or Congressional budget reconciliation meetings. But for the rest of us, the archive offers an . . . . Continue Reading »
Regular readers of SHS will recall that I was honored to be asked by the United Nations International School to lecture at a two day bioethics conference it held for about 700 students from all around the world. My theme was the importance of intrinsic human dignity in bioethics.Part of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers moved by the news reported in today’s Rally for Nigeria may want to read the Zenit interview with the Catholic archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, Co-existence Turned Sour . At one point he explains that despite the persecution, many indigenous Christians are not leaving the north, . . . . Continue Reading »
Newsweek’s new issue is out, featuring more in the magazine’s ongoing love affair with the Obamas—this time a cover about Michelle Obama’s campaign against obesity. But what’s that in the reflection in the apple? A reader suggests its either Karl Marx or one of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Among recently “planted” Protestant churches in Manhattan, Redeemer Presbyterian is by far the fastest growing and best known. It’s so new, in fact, that it doesn’t have its own worship space yet. While that is under construction (at West 83rd Street and Broadway), the . . . . Continue Reading »
How much would Jesus eat? The answer—as determined by depictions of the last supper—vary by era, say two brothers— an eating behavior expert and a religious studies scholar : Brian and Craig Wansink teamed up to analyze the amount of food depicted in 52 of the best-known paintings of . . . . Continue Reading »
According to PBS’s Religion & Ethic Newsweekly : A 1998 law mandates that the US government have an Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom to advance religious liberty around the world as part of American foreign policy. But the Obama administration still has not . . . . Continue Reading »
Bart Stupak tells Fox News that, as a “guesstimate,” he thinks the Democrats are at least 16 votes short of passing the health-care bill: “I’d be surprised if they have 200 votes.” One trouble for Pelosi seems to be that, this time around, she can’t accommodate . . . . Continue Reading »
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