Amy Julia Becker is a writer and mother of a child with Down syndrome. For several years she has sought to debunk the frequently reported claim that 90 percent of babies with Down syndrome are aborted. Technically, she’s right. It’s not accurate to say that 90 percent of all babies with Down . . . . Continue Reading »
Neverending Story
Kaelene Wilson-Goldie, Artforum
EU Accuses Google of Hurting Customers, Competitors in Web Search Case
Alastair MacDonald, Reuters
“They Didn't Know Anything”
J. Bryan Lowder, Slate
Rural Surreal
Lee Ann Brown, Asheville Poetry Review
An important event next month in New York Continue Reading »
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard is a story “of the decline and fall of the house of Salina” (the New York Times) and “the decline of the Sicilian aristocracy” (the New York Review of Books), a “dirge for an aristocratic world in steep descent (the Wall Street Journal). True enough, if too modest. Lampedusa’s novel is an attempt to reckon with the fact that we taste eternity in mutable forms. Wild loves are pollarded by time, childhood homes are lost or destroyed, pets die. Continue Reading »
Your Holiness:I recall with pleasure and gratitude my visit to the Vatican in November and your moving address to our Colloquium on the Complementarity of Man and Woman in Marriage. There, gathered with leaders of the world’s great religious traditions, East and West, you reaffirmed the Church’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Economists Still Think Economics Is the Best
Moises Naim, The Atlantic
Probing the Heart of French Malaise
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, The New York Times
Blame the Culture Wars on Irving Kristonl, the Neoconservatives
Craig Fehrmanem, The Boston Globe
The Future of Loneliness
Olivia Laing, The Guardian
A quiz: Which of the following sets of policies is best? Continue Reading »
Why do many see abortion as a positive good? Continue Reading »
Yesterday I had the good pleasure to join a courageous group of people for a conference entitled “Transformation Potential” held at the Emmanuel Centre in London. The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a . . . . Continue Reading »
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