Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, a posthumous but vivid presence at this publication through his friendship with Fr. Richard Neuhaus, once was importuned by a congregant who complained that the service did not seem relevant to her. The point, he thundered back, is rather for you to be relevant to the . . . . Continue Reading »
From our friends at Grassroots Films comes some good news. First, their full-length documentary, The Human Experience , currently in pre-screenings, has continued to garner international accolades and compelling testimonies. Among the recent honors are the Award of Excellence from the Indie Film . . . . Continue Reading »
The Summer 2009 issue of The New Atlantis is now hot off the press and I have a article entitled “Technocracy and Populism” among the mix. The New Atlantis really is one of my favortite journals, always has lots of interesting and cutting edge studies exploring the . . . . Continue Reading »
Doctors everywhere should emulate the vast majority of physicians in Oregon, Washington, and now Montana, who refuse to participate or be complicit in assisted suicide. A woman with cancer who wanted to kill herself in Montana has died of her disease. From the story:A Missoula woman, unable to . . . . Continue Reading »
As I approach my 60th, not funny:Har de har, . . . . Continue Reading »
The only way universal health care will have any chance of working financially is if it is modest, covering the basics and leaving the optionals to people’s own private decision making and budgets. But the Left isn’t about freedom, it is about the raw exercise of power, hence, . . . . Continue Reading »
Or, instead of poets , we could just stick with The Onion . . . . . Continue Reading »
Hire more poets : Last week, Israel’s oldest newspaper, Haaretz , took a one-off chance, temporarily replacing its workaday reporters with 31 of the country’s leading poets and authors. The writers, as writers do, ran amok. They filed epic front-page news reports on daily life in the . . . . Continue Reading »
LifeSiteNews.com profiles Luhra Tivis , a former employee of the late-term abortionist George Tiller, whose experiences working at his facility drove her into a life of pro-life activism. Tivis had no hand in the performance of the abortions themselves—rather, she was assigned the task of . . . . Continue Reading »
In many ways, I share Joe’s antipathy toward James Joyce’s Ulysses . But I must confess to having something of a love-hate relationship with Joyce’s novel, which relates in tedious detail a day in the life of the city of Dublin and its environs. On the one . . . . Continue Reading »
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