As the Right broadly defined argues about its direction, let’s hope for an increasingly large place in that public sphere for Postmodern Conservatism. But what is it? My attempts to define can be found here in various parts. To continue, the embrace of uncertainty is an intersection of two . . . . Continue Reading »
The scent of health care rationing is in the air. But I have noticed lately that many who support the concept push the agenda by not actually discussing health care rationing. Case in point: Ellen Goodman’s fuzzy recent column, “A Rational Talk About Rationing Care.” Goodman starts . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s always nice to see smart young academics move up in the world, and one of them, my friend John Schwenkler, has had his fine blog Upturned Earth taken aboard at AmCon . A win/win, I’d say. . . . . Continue Reading »
“There is a complexity to human affairs,” David Brooks has announced, “before which science and analysis simply stands mute.” This is correct, but in comes in the context of a column that seems to cut in a strange way against it. It is as if we all contain a multitude of . . . . Continue Reading »
I have noticed lately that the political left, which most supports health care rationing (and which, ironically, yells the loudest about HMO care restrictions), argues disingenuously for the agenda through the time-tested tactic of blatant misdirection.Classic example, the fuzzy and reliably emotive . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote earlier about my worry that two competing bills filed in Texas about the state’s discriminatory futile care law—one to put on a few bows of surface reform, the other to end the right of hospitals to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment—would end up in gridlock. This . . . . Continue Reading »
Once we have national health insurance, the Death Angel will be given a medal . . . . Continue Reading »
At Front Porch Republic , James Matthew Wilson reflects on a sonogram image of his son: This is my son. As you see him here, he has been alive for just about one-hundred-forty days and has, this and other ultrasound images suggest, my nose and not his mother’s. I have not seen him any more . . . . Continue Reading »
Patrick Deneen wants to agree with Jody’s argument that Catholic culture stands at the middle of the Notre Dame controversy. But he can’t : I admire and agree with much of what Jody writes, but I fear I have to disagree with him over this analysis. In my view, the singular focus upon . . . . Continue Reading »
The new movie with Tom Hanks as James Bond and the Catholic Church as SMERSH is about to hit the theatres, if you care. It is called Angels & Demons , or The Further Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk as told to Dan Brown and Exhibited in a Narrative of The Secret Deeds of the Roman Church . From . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
