Unlimited license without moral constraint leads here. A woman is pregnant with eleven—no, make that twelve—babies after receiving IVF. From the story:The unnamed mum-to-be - a teacher - is said to be defying medical advice by . . . . Continue Reading »
Remaining fascinated by definitions of postmodernism and conservatism, and always returning to the notions of sentiment and “anti-ideology,” to view all the brutal ugliness and inhumanity of what might legitimately be classified as “modernist” (architecture and literature first . . . . Continue Reading »
As the Republican Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, Tom Delay earned the nickname the “The Hammer” for his enforcement of party discipline in close votes and his reputation for taking political retribution on opponents. Now we’ll get to see Delay’s soft . . . . Continue Reading »
Death may punctuate, but life’s the sentence. . . . . Continue Reading »
The forthcoming issue of the Atlantic includes one of the most sensible and pragmatic articles on the health care debate you’re likely to ever read. After his father died of a hospital-borne infection, business executive David Goldhill began examining the health-care industry. I’m a . . . . Continue Reading »
William Park (InsideCatholic.com) lists, in his judgment, “the fifty best Catholic movies of all time” . Some readers, myself included, were surprised by the absence of The Mission . A magnificent cast (including Robert DeNiro, Jeremy Irons, and Liam Neeson); a screenplay by Robert Bolt . . . . Continue Reading »
In our ongoing roundup of commentary on Pope Benedict’s social encyclical Caritas in Veritate , the Distributists and Austrians weigh in, and renegade liberation theologian Leonardo Boff believes the Pope could use a good dose of Marxism (little surprise, there). . . . . Continue Reading »
Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue , the biggest-selling jazz album of all time. As the NPR jazz profile noted on the fortieth anniversary : To the musicians who recorded it, Kind of Blue was just another session when it was released in August, 1959. But the . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Klavan examines the intriguing political evolution of one of England’s greatest Romantic poets: It seems to me that the last several decades in America have been a weird echo of the decades in Europe around the coming of the nineteenth century—and that no figure can serve as a . . . . Continue Reading »
We’re back, after an eventful few days. On Friday, you might remember, I was to have driven a group of boys — the Holy Crusaders from our parish — to the U.S. Army Chaplain Museum in Columbia, South Carolina. This plan did not materialize. I had lost my van’s registration . . . . Continue Reading »
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