Recently I’ve spent a lot of time digging through back issues of FT and have been rewarded with gem after gem. Here, for instance, is an excerpt from the May 2001 Public Square : Sydney Smith, who died in 1845, deserves to be better remembered than he is. Not that it would do him any . . . . Continue Reading »
Britain’s latest campaign to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies—through increased sex-ed and access to contraception—has hit a snag : The latest study of pregnancy in Britain has shown that the rate of conception among girls under 18 has risen for the first time in five years. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Final Exit Network is dedicated to assisted suicide. More honestly than some in the euthanasia movement, its members openly acknowledge that the “ultimate civil liberty” should not be limited to the terminally ill.It has long been suspected that some members of the FEN are not . . . . Continue Reading »
The possible becomes permissible; the permissible becomes the imperative. . . . . Continue Reading »
I am back in California sinking with my fellow citizens beneath the waves of red ink, jetlagged and scratchy from a persistent chest cold, but gratified that the speaking trip to Ireland and London was (I think), quite successful. Here are a few photos I took for your (hoped for) enjoyment. Thanks . . . . Continue Reading »
Because pornography’s exploitation of women wasn’t blatant enough already. . . . . Continue Reading »
This time in Britain, where Oxford University neuroscientist Susan Greenfield fears that the overstimulation caused by technologies such as television, video games, and the social-networking website Facebook can “rewire” the brain, “infantilising [it] into the state of small . . . . Continue Reading »
I have concluded that too much money is being spent to pay for “scientific studies,” which after all, have to find something to report to earn their keep. This often leads to much confusion. Take for example a new study that looked into the life-course of women, reports that drinking . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are some fascinating images that splice photographs taken during the siege of Leningrad with contemporary photographs of the same places. . . . . Continue Reading »
Tom Hoopes, the editor of the National Catholic Register responds to Fr. Raymond de Souza’s article : Father Raymond J. de Souza has written for the Register since 1997 and was the Register’s Rome correspondent from 1999—2003. Our publisher, Father Owen Kearns, knew of Father . . . . Continue Reading »
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