Jet lagged from my recent journey to Ireland/UK, where there is an 8 hour time difference, and up at 3:30 AM, I decided to see what I had missed at The Corner and ran across an entry by Jonah Goldberg discussing a debate between two philosophers, Alvin Plantinga and Daniel Dennett. Plantinga . . . . Continue Reading »
It might not be tens of thousands of years old like its nominative English counterpart, but the accusative/objective pronoun me is hardly a neologism, much less a confining Victorian corruption. So wrote Benjamin A. Plotinsky earlier this week, over at City Journal . You might be rolling your eyes: . . . . Continue Reading »
“Officials said the Obama administration’s goal is to make the rule clearer.” I’d say the administration is being pretty clear about its priorities. . . . . Continue Reading »
At the British magazine Standpoint , George Walden is fed up with his fellow Europeans’ incoherent and illogical anti-Americanism: There is something neurotic in Europe’s view of the US, something perpetually out of kilter. Think of the crush on Bill Clinton felt by many women, the . . . . Continue Reading »
I was shocked to see the note on NRO commemorating the one-year anniversary of the death of William F. Buckley Jr. It seems like just a few months ago that we were mourning our loss—just a short span of time, but one which has brought the deaths of so many fine thinkers, writers, and leaders. . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been following various aspects of the FEN activists’ arrests. But this aspect of the story really caught my attention. SHSers will recall that I mentioned the book A Chosen Death in a previous post, and how its author Lonny Shavelson watched a Hemlock operative kill “Gene” . . . . Continue Reading »
At the top of the list are I and we , which apparently date back tens of thousands of years. I don’t know about the way the researchers came to their conclusion—computer analysis of “the rate of change of words in English and the languages that share a common . . . . Continue Reading »
Jack Kevorkian, who painted the delightful picture above, helped kill people—other than Thomas Youk, who he lethally injected—via an assisted suicide machine in which the client flipped a switch opening the valve of a canister containing carbon monoxide. Yet, he has come out against the . . . . Continue Reading »
Compassion and Choices (formerly the Hemlock Society) has played a crafty game of pretense about the ultimate goals of its assisted suicide campaign. In debates (including those in which I have participated), in media interviews, in press releases, etc., its representatives have claimed that C and C . . . . Continue Reading »
Farhad Manjoo is impressed with the new Amazon Kindle. And that’s what makes him fear that Amazon’s book distribution plan could ruin the publishing industry and severely restrict public discourse: It’s hard not to love Amazon’s new e-book reader. For starters, it’s . . . . Continue Reading »
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