The health insurance industry has issued a report warning that under the current Senate version of Obamacare, the cost of private insurance will soar, apparently because the coverage requirement aspect has been weakened significantly. From the story:The study, done by PricewaterhouseCoopers . . . . Continue Reading »
The above tagline is from the new “Futurisms” blog over at The New Atlantis . If you haven’t had the chance to check it out, I highly recommend you do. The blog engages techies who reduce human cognition to the material processes of the brain and who hope to harness technology to . . . . Continue Reading »
http://www.theholylandreview.net/holyland/att_ver_st.jspAnalysing the Complex Situation Facing Arab Christiansby Edward PentinRome, October 13, 2009In a recent address in Westminster Cathedral, London, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Fouad Twal, drew attention to the emigration of . . . . Continue Reading »
Asia Times Online declined to publish my scheduled column today. Here it is, unedited.Obama in Nightmare Alleyby SpenglerFull disclosure: I pray for President Obama weekly, in keeping with the Jewish practice to “seek the peace of the city.” But I do not believe he will stand up to the . . . . Continue Reading »
George Will argues that a political discourse dominated by “rights talk” is bound to overemphasize the thymotic component of moral life. If our moral landscape is entirely populated by rights bearing individuals who obsessively declare their entitlements then the . . . . Continue Reading »
Jagdish Bhagwati defends free markets against ” capitalism’s petty detractors “: Inevitably, the crisis on Wall Street has revived the never-ending notion that markets undermine morality. Oliver Stone, ever restless to recapture the days of former glory, has begun production on a . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this year, I did a podcast interview with Kevin Allen, who runs a very fine feature on Ancient Faith Radio called The Illumined Heart. It mostly dealt with human exceptionalism, and it has now been abridged (with my permission) into a written Q and A in Salvo magazine. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
In ” One Cheer for Jim Wallis ” I complimented the founder of Sojourners for his insistence—when pressed on the issue by a CBN reporter—that abortion funding be excluded from any health care reform. I ran into Wallis not long afterwards and he wanted to know why I was being so . . . . Continue Reading »
The health care stories out of the UK are getting worse and worse. Most First Thoughts readers have probably never heard of the “”Liverpool Care Pathway,” a palliative regime being adopted by hospitals, nursing homes, and hospices throughout the UK, under which dying . . . . Continue Reading »
The UK’s Liverpool Care Pathway has apparently killed its first (reported) victim. The Pathway treats dying patients as members of a category instead of as individuals. Rather than give patients the individualized treatment their respective symptoms and conditions warrant, the Pathway . . . . Continue Reading »
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