My friend Matt Crawford has written a book ! It is a very good book! I will have more to say about it later! But for now, go read this warm review of Shop Class as Soulcraft , by Slate ‘s Michael Agger! . . . . Continue Reading »
Reuters : New Hampshire lawmakers unexpectedly rejected a bill on Wednesday that would have made the state the sixth in the United States to authorize gay marriage. The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted down the bill in a 188-186 vote, hours after its Senate approved the . . . . Continue Reading »
In a move geared to permit exploitation of the world’s most destitute people, the FDA has apparently decided to permit drug companies to conduct human subjects research overseas in ways that are barred under pertinent domestic ethical rules and guidelines. From the story : [T]rials performed . . . . Continue Reading »
Do read Alan Jacobs on Obama at Notre Dame. Because the clump-of-cells argument is so crude and ‘final’, Obama, putting himself at the front of a long train, seeks refuge in bad postmodernity. Rather than overdetermining the abortion question as a question of science — and this, . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s a very odd thing (and many have remarked on its oddness) that in America today “conservatism” suggests both support for families and hostility to the claims of community, both intense opposition to a culture of choice and intense devotion to the ideal of the freely choosing . . . . Continue Reading »
This blog does not get into the specifics of global warming, but it does discuss how science is being corrupted by politics—mostly from the left—transforming the method into an ideology sometimes called scientism. Thus, in the stem cell debate, clear biological definitions have been . . . . Continue Reading »
Five years ago same-sex marriages were recognized by Massachusetts state courts after such recognition was voted down by citizens in a referendum. In March the National Organization for Marriage and the Massachusetts Family Initiative joined forces to poll the state’s residents on their . . . . Continue Reading »
The success of Dan Brown’s “message,” Ross writes in his latest column, can’t be separated from its dishonesty. The “secret” history of Christendom that unspools in “The Da Vinci Code” is false from start to finish . The lost gospels are real enough, but . . . . Continue Reading »
Cynical me believes that if this rule had come down when Bush was president, the media would have been all over it—although I am sure he wouldn’t have been aware of it any more than President Obama is. In a move geared to permit exploitation of the world’s most destitute people, . . . . Continue Reading »
France’s First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has criticized Pope Benedict’s comments on Aids in Africa: “I was born Catholic, I was baptised, but in my life I feel profoundly secular. I find that the controversy coming from the Pope’s message—albeit distorted by the . . . . Continue Reading »
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