For years, we heard that if only the Bush funding restrictions were removed, ESCR would quickly demonstrate its promise of curing the multitudes. Well, it’s been a year since the Bush executive order was revoked. But are “the scientists” happy? Not on a bet. From . . . . Continue Reading »
The cold-war comedy, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming , won a Golden Globe in 1967. But when a television station in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia recently broadcast a mock report about a Russian invasion, the people weren’t amused : A television station in Georgia . . . . Continue Reading »
A new survey of primary and secondary school children in the UK gives Americans reasons not to feel too bad about the state of our own science education : Just under a half of boys (49%) correctly pinned down gravity as Newton’s ground-breaking discovery, compared with 76% of girls. Just over . . . . Continue Reading »
One more contribution to the health care debate in the United States introduces a surprising possibility: Universal health care tends to cut the abortion rate. How so? Britain’s former Catholic archbishop, Basil Cardinal Hume explains:“If that frightened, unemployed 19-year-old knows . . . . Continue Reading »
In light of Rhett Smith’s interesting (and true!) thoughts on what novels do for us, I was intrigued to read Francis Watson’s rather critical comments of their form in western literature: The assumption that ‘love’ (or ‘romantic love’) is the primary basis for . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a very good message from Russell Moore, author of Adopted for Life, from a conference devoted to the theme:More audio and video from the conference . . . . Continue Reading »
Want to be canonized as a saint? You may want to move to Italy: 46.7 percent of saints lived in that country at the time of their deaths. That is just one of the many interesting tidbits to be gleaned from Barro, McCleary, and McQuoid’s new paper, The Economics of Sainthood (a preliminary . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert Louis Wilken, a board member and frequent contributor of First Things , has a review in the Wall Street Journal of two new books on the Crusades: The recorded past and the remembered past are seldom the same. Nowhere is this more evident than with the Crusades. The Crusades were a belated . . . . Continue Reading »
Twenty-five years ago the first .com Internet domain name was registered. Read the story here. How has our world changed as a result of the Internet? The good, the bad and the ugly. It’s all there/here/out there/on our computers for us to read, interact with, react to, live with, struggle . . . . Continue Reading »
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