The Telegraph reports that HIV-AIDS activists claim “Barack Obama has broken four campaign promises on overseas aid and risks reversing the successes of the Bush administration.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Alfie Patten, the thirteen-year-old boy who made a such a big, hand-wringing splash in the UK by claiming to have fathered a child with his fifteen-year-old girlfriend—who was also sleeping with several other boys—turned out not to be the father after all. From the story : DNA tests have . . . . Continue Reading »
The latest issue of Modern Age (Winter 2009) is now available for general consumption and features a symposium on Remi Brague’s amazingly erudite book The Law of God . Besides a very fine lead contribution from Mark Shiffman (who blogs over at Front Porch Republic ) you’ll also find short . . . . Continue Reading »
The media repeatedly pound home the false meme that assisted suicide is only about people diagnosed with a terminal illness. True, some American activists make that argument. But the “terminal illness limitation” is unquestionably the minority view within the movement.Case in point: On . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama’s commencement address at dear old Notre Dame last Sunday has sure kicked up a lot of dust in the blogosphere! My goodness, you’d’ve thought Satan himself had journeyed to South Bend and offered the wobbly Catholics out there an opportunity to “dialogue” . . . . Continue Reading »
The more faith, the more doubt: Dan Brown’s imbecilic scenarios exist precisely because the Catholic Church has become the dominant Christian denomination in the United States, displacing the mainline Protestants. Think of it as religious pornography. Anyone who believes in supernatural . . . . Continue Reading »
But don’t take my word for it; Ben Bouwman thinks so too. . . . . Continue Reading »
At The University Bookman , Joseph P. Duggan offers an interesting read of Marshall McLuhan as a ‘postmodern grammarian.’ There’s too much at issue for me to cut into it adequately at the moment, but all manner of intriguing and controversial questions are raised in a pretty short . . . . Continue Reading »
A debate is shaping up between two visions of the way forward for the GOP. You could describe the battle as Nerds vs. Heroes. Unlike the world of comics, where heroes to nerds dominate, there is not much prospect for a synthesis between Republican Nerds and would-be Republican Heroes, although many . . . . Continue Reading »
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