You’ve probably read the lovely essay by Michael Ledeen in our August/September issue: ” Death in Naples .” If you haven’t already, you’re missing delightful snipits from Italian culture like this: The intimacy between St. Gennaro and the Neapolitans is more the kind . . . . Continue Reading »
Religious education and youth ministry often sacrifice intellectual rigor for sociability and sensibility. Jesus devolves into “Our Homie,” and normal adolescent questioning leads mostly to apostasy under another name. People who underwent Catholic sacramental catechesis from the 1970s on . . . . Continue Reading »
—FT assistant editor Stefan McDaniel’s weighing in on the limits of free trade at the Public Discourse —Sally Thomas on heart-able saints at Icons & Curiosities —Wesley Smith’s cover story in the latest issue of National Review : “A Myth Is as Good as a Mile: . . . . Continue Reading »
These saints, they are so heart-able. Take Saint Francis here, for example. Everybody hearts Saint Francis. Even people who don’t normally believe in saints heart Saint Francis so much they put statues of him in their gardens. The Humane Society especially hearts Saint Francis, and why not? . . . . Continue Reading »
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm , the seven commandments that guide the animals are eventually reduced to one: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” While humans have always applied this standard to the animal kingdom (e.g., house cats are more equal . . . . Continue Reading »
Poet and translator Sarah Ruden will no longer publish with Yale University Press following its decision to remove the controversial Danish images—and all other images—of Muhammad from Klausen’s The Cartoons That Shook the World , and in a letter to the editors of The New Criterion . . . . Continue Reading »
“The scientists” continually assure us that biotech will be conducted ethically and with full control. It isn’t now, in my view, but it may soon get worse. Under new rules about to go into effect in the UK, scientists will be able to create cloned human/animal hybrid cloned . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Minowitz, the author of the meticulous and fascinating STRAUSSOPHOBIA: DEFENDING LEO STRAUSS AND STRAUSSIANS AGAINST SHADIA DRURY AND OTHER ACCUSERS, seems to have some way of alerting himself whenever his cool title is mentioned on the web. I heard from him very soon after I listed . . . . Continue Reading »
On Saturday, Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug died at the age of ninety-five. Few men have ever done more good for the human race— yet few people today know who he is or what he did. Classically Liberal explains why he was one of the most important persons of the modern age : In this . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent paper published in the journal Neuroethics argues for minimizing animal suffering by creating beasts that lack the ability to sense pain . This reminded me of a collection of thought experiments, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten , by philosopher Julian Baggini. The thought . . . . Continue Reading »
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