Over at City Journal , Theodore Dalrymple continues his delightfully dyspeptic live-blogging of Britain’s decline and fall. Most recently, he comments on events in the town of Rotherham, where shop-owners keep ruffians away by blasting Bach: There is surely something deeply emblematic about . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert Wilken’s previously advertised St. Thomas Day Lecture, “Aquinas on Romans,” at New York’s Church of St. Vincent Ferrer is now online in audio and video . I highly recommend it. . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Times Literary Supplement , A. N. Wilson reviews William Oddie’s latest book, Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy : Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy painstakingly follows the development of GK’s ideas from the schoolboy poet and debater of the 1880s to the author . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’re in the DC area this week, catch George Weigel’s William E. Simon Lecture “Scoundrel Time: The Politics of 2008” on Wednesday, February 4 at the Madison Hotel (1177 Fifteenth Street NW). The lecture starts at 6:30 PM and the reception at 7:30. R.S.V.P. to . . . . Continue Reading »
This in today from the Guardian : The well-being of millions of children across Britain is being damaged by adults’ aggressive pursuit of personal success, a three-year inquiry by the Children’s Society concluded today. The society—a charity allied to the Church of . . . . Continue Reading »
I first posted this disability rights protest song about euthanasia a few years ago. Given the flow of events, and the many new SHSers who might not have seen it, I decided it was worth repeating. . . . . Continue Reading »
China’s notorious one child policy has led to eugenics, sex selection abortion, female infanticide, and other horrors. Now, we are being pushed in that same direction in the West by radical environmentalists in the name of going Green. From the story:COUPLES who have more than two children are . . . . Continue Reading »
The news wires are buzzing about Nadya Suleman, the woman who had eight babies through IVF. Questions are being raised about the ethics of the case, both because of her circumstances—she already has six children—and the number of children born. From the story: Fertility experts have . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the purposes of professional medical organizations is to stand up for proper ethical policies and laws. Lately, we have seen too many such organizations going “neutral,” on assisted suicide. How an organization dedicated to defending doctors and patients can be indifferent to one . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m generally ambiguous about “civil religion” with one magnificent exception—when the Pittsburgh Steelers play in the Super Bowl. And then, there’s nothing ambiguous about it. In the Pavlischek household just about everything is open for criticism and debate with the . . . . Continue Reading »
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