After a fifteeen-month battle with brain cancer, Senator Edward Kennedy died today at the age of seventy-seven. As one of the most influential liberal senators of all time, he was often viewed as the archenemy of conservatives. On a personal level, though, Kennedy’s warmth and charm would . . . . Continue Reading »
Matt Zeitlin should be less surprised by the final sentence of his post (link not suitable for children): I’m not familiar enough with the safe-sex corpus to really comment on it authoritatively, but in my own experience (health classes and so forth), the near-obsessive focus on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Right now I’m in FT contributing writer Gary A. Anderson’s introductory Old Testament course at Notre Dame. Our homework for tomorrow includes detailed biblical criticism of Genesis 1–11. And this: . . . . Continue Reading »
I had a jaw-dropping moment the other week when UK officials lept to the NHS’s defense in an attempt to help Obamacare. Longtime readers of SHS know that I have been detailing the many travesties of health care in the UK—such as patients being forced to wait hours in . . . . Continue Reading »
The always thoughtful Professor Orin Kerr recently penned a post expressing his disagreement with “lawyers or bloggers” who maintain “that the Supreme Court should not rely on the doctrine of stare decisis .” As one of the more outspoken opponents of . . . . Continue Reading »
During their recent convention, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America adopted a full communion agreement with the United Methodist Church. According to the ELCA website , the church is also in full communion with the Reformed Church in America, United Church of Christ, and the Presbyterian . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe asks whether I’m having the teenager read any of Richard Wilbur’s poetry as part of her American-literature course. Wilbur, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, is an elder statesman of American letters and may well represent, though I don’t know anything about his actual politics, one . . . . Continue Reading »
From conversations with friends and acquaintances in Hong Kong, the damage the Obama administration has done to American interests in the Far East may be far worse than meets the eye. The Bush administration, whatever its other failings, achieved something that no previous US administration had . . . . Continue Reading »
Forgot one item on the teenager’s reading list for this year: How to Read a Book, by Mortimer Adler and Charles van Doren. When I handed her the book, she took one look at the title, laughed, and said, “Don’t you think it’s a little late for that?” . . . . Continue Reading »
This year the federal government will: Spend: $30,958 per household Tax: $17,576 per household Borrow $13,392 per household The Heritage Foundation has more . . . Via: Justin Taylor who notes, “And none of these estimates include the cost of health-care reform!” . . . . Continue Reading »
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