Here’s an excerpt from an article on the Sixties of mine in THE INTERCOLLEGIATE REVIEW . It supports the Tocquevillian thought that things are mainly getting better and worse, as well as the thought that the aggressive nationalizing of the civil rights movement was in response to a state and . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a good and important development in the assisted suicide debate in the UK. A bill was proposed to stop suicide predators on the Internet. Predictably, assisted suicide advocates have attempted to amend the bill to legalize suicide tourism, that is, relatives taking suicidal loved . . . . Continue Reading »
The Times of London oversteps a little with its headline: “Cardinal John Henry Newman, Catholic convert, is beatified by the Pope.” The AP story carries a more accurate if less exciting title: “Pope OKs miracle to beatify UK Cardinal Newman.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Jonathan Swift proposed a profitable trade in the corpses of Irish children. That’s the rudimentary markets of the 18th century for you. Today we can do much, much better.Reuters ran the following item July 3:RIGA (Reuters) – Ready to give your soul for a loan in these difficulteconomic . . . . Continue Reading »
Which, I don’t mind sharing, is a constant theme in my confessions. I hope it’s a sign of progress that I actually bother to go to Confession . . . But I digress. Check this totally out. Here I am congratulating myself for getting up out of the chair and going bodily to Confession, when . . . . Continue Reading »
The only only problem is: according to this data, the correlation is inverse. The more pornography, the less rape. “...since the mainstreaming of porn into American lives in the early 70s, ...the incidence of rape per capita has declined by an astonishing 85%.” The data apparently ties . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Books & Culture , yours truly has a review of Mike Rapport’s 1848: Year of Revolution : The year was 1848, and Europe was burning: The fires of revolution had flared up in country after country, each blaze erupting separately yet all feeding on the same fuel of social unrest and . . . . Continue Reading »
I was away and completely off the grid when President Obama made his health care pitch. But several people sent me e-mails questioning whether he pushed futile care theory as a method of cost containment and health care reform. As usual with our president, it is hard to tell exactly what he wants as . . . . Continue Reading »
Having been trained as a musician, I am more suspicious of the arts in some ways than anyon else in this discussion, including David Layman. Arts depend ultimately on artifice, and the more one knows about the details of the artifice, the more tired it becomes. Once you’ve made the white tiger . . . . Continue Reading »
Harvard Law prof, Cass Sunstein, picked by President Obama to be the “regulations czar” wants animals to be able to bring lawsuits in court. This is a very radical concept known as “animal standing.” Senator Saxby Chambliss is holding up the nomination over the issue, . . . . Continue Reading »
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