Diogenes writes : A Vermont woman named Patricia Blair has suffered a tragedy: Her unborn twins were killed in an auto accident. Blair—who survived, obviously—thinks that the driver who caused the accident should be prosecuted for the death of her children. But you see the problem: If . . . . Continue Reading »
Bryan Caplan expresses his surprise at Geoffrey Miller: I’m impressed that after proclaiming himself “a secular humanist, an antiwar internationalist, an animal-rights environmentalist, a pro-gay feminist, a libertarian on most social, sexual, and cultural issues, and a registered . . . . Continue Reading »
I have noticed in the last year that the assisted suicide ideologues at Compassion and Choices are trying to reposition the organization—formerly the Hemlock Society—as the go-to group on information and methods of dying. It began with California’s AB 2747, pushed by C and C, which . . . . Continue Reading »
I was asked by To The Source to do a quick primer on the current health care bill. Happy to oblige. I pointed out that policy holders could keep their “current” policies, but if the policy lapsed or was revised, any new policy would have to be government approved. I also noted that . . . . Continue Reading »
I wondered the other day whether President Obama knows what he is talking about when it comes to health care, pointing to, as his latest ignorant utterance, the claim that surgeons make up to $50,000 for amputating a foot. Now, the American College of Surgeons has weighed in as well, none too . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest issue of the journal World Affairs , Andrew J. Bacevich offers an appreciation of Graham Greene and his novel, The Quiet American: In the twentieth-century English-speaking world, Greene ranks alongside Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and Evelyn Waugh among the small number of . . . . Continue Reading »
Heather MacDonald is an inimitable conservative journalist. Her work on such issues as policing and immigration is sharp, insightful, and often indispensable. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for her views on religion. At Secular Right she recently wrote about seeing an announcement from a . . . . Continue Reading »
Stanley Fish wears fancy spurs, but he never rides outside the circus ring. . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week Slate.com had a week-long series on “How Will America End?” that examined various apocalyptic scenarios. Josh Levin, for instance, asked whether Mormonism can preserve American civilization : A religion is also a good candidate to keep America alive. The history of Catholicism . . . . Continue Reading »
Although Kevin DeYoung is not, as he admits, “enamored with the (overused) word ‘diversity’”, he argues in an intriguing post that it should be applied to the songs that we sing in church : [T]he quest for musical diversity should not remove the particularity of a church’s . . . . Continue Reading »
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