My buddy Stefan McDaniel has an On the Square article today with the intentionally provocative title “ Reverence for Words: A Case Against Blogging .” My initial reaction before reading it—because I’m the type of person who makes snap judgments based on titles—was . . . . Continue Reading »
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is the smartest and richest animal rights group around. Unlike PETA, it doesn’t openly proselytize that old animal rights religion, e.g., sentience gives moral value, “a rat, is a pig, is a dog, is a boy,” the quote from Ingrid . . . . Continue Reading »
Bryan Caplan asks and answers : One popular story about the decline in family size over the last two centuries goes like this: Back in the old days, having kids paid. Children started working when they were quite young, and provided for their parents in their old age. Then industrialization and/or . . . . Continue Reading »
Check out this slideshow of modernist churches around the world. Having grown up Methodist, I was intrigued by this gallery of United Methodist Churches. An illustrative factoid from Hamburg. Steeplescapes in Bogota, some unidentified Oklahoma location, and Camden and Wiscassett, Maine. More . . . . Continue Reading »
So one Steven A. Beebe, professor of communications at Texas State University–San Marcos, was rummaging through C.S. Lewis’ original manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, when he came across a fragment . Not just any tidbit or afterthought but what the good professor came to . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend calls my attention to a bit of a brouhaha that erupted in January 2008, when then candidate Barack Obama gushed about how much he liked the character of Omar Little in the HBO television series, “The Wire.” Obama told the Las Vegas Sun,I gotta say Omar’s a great guy. . . . . Continue Reading »
I forget how exactly I stumbled across this, but I found it strangely beautiful. . . . . Continue Reading »
A nurse who went on the Internet to teach people how to commit suicide has lost his license. From the story:Using the online aliases “Li Dao” and “Falcon Girl,” a male nurse from southern Minnesota participated in international suicide chat rooms and presented himself . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is a bit more from the article I’m working on (slowly) on the defenders of the nation (such as Scruton and Manent) in Europe today. It has something vaguely to do with our president and his Nobel Prize and even Krauthammer’s article in THE WEEKLY STANDARD about the dangers in . . . . Continue Reading »
Pro-life Americans should focus on restricting abortion at the state level , says Americans United for Life president Charmaine Yoest: A vibrant movement to restrict abortion at the state level continues: Over the last year, our legal team has provided assistance in 30 states where pro-life . . . . Continue Reading »
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