Well, it is that time of year. And lately we’ve been seeing these buses roll through town: up Main Street, past the carp-juice shop and what used to be the ice-cream store but is now another purveyor of distinctly frilly antiques, around the courthouse square, and off into the blue and distant . . . . Continue Reading »
If you were puzzled by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano ‘s positive article on President Obama’s Notre Dame speech—which appeared right next to another article strongly criticizing his stand on stem-cell research—the paper’s editor, Paulo Rodari, may have . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Wall Street Journal , Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein considers Benedict’s trip to Israel a Success: Pope Benedict XVI does not yet enjoy the goodwill his predecessor generated. Aspects of his past and statements he has made are arguably controversial and have generated criticism—some . . . . Continue Reading »
The Oklahoma Legislature having voted unanimously to outlaw all human cloning—still no word on what the governor will do with the bill—state bureaucrats are now putting $5.5 million into adult stem cell research over the next five years. From the story: The Tobacco Settlement Endowment . . . . Continue Reading »
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 »
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