It’s over, but it’s far from done. The 2008 Lambeth Conference wrapped up this past Sunday, and all the purple-shirted Anglican bishops went back home to the everyday work of proclaiming the Gospel in dioceses from Singapore to South Dakota. Was it a success? Will Anglicans look back . . . . Continue Reading »
Secondhand Smokette, better known as Debra J. Saunders, has an excellent column in today’s San Francisco Chronicle castigating the animal rights terrorists who are attacking animal researchers. (I should point out that she was writing about the dangers of animal rights before I ever did.) From . . . . Continue Reading »
It was a Tuesday morning like any other Tuesday morning. I came into the office, said hi to my co-workers, and checked my e-mail. I had never given any thought to Scandinavian crime novels myself, but all that was about to change. When I got my weekly e-mail update from Books & Culture , I saw that . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s some good news to brighten up your Monday: LarkNews.com , a Christian satire website in the mock-news tradition of The Onion , has posted new articles for the month of August. My favorites among the latest headlines include “MySpace gives pastor ‘prophetic’ . . . . Continue Reading »
I know and have read little of Solzhenitsyn, but at some point in college I read his address at Harvard’s Class Day in 1978. To me he captured brilliantly Western society’s predominant form of legalism in which the law is obeyed only so far as one is compelled by the phrasing of . . . . Continue Reading »
One Summer Johnson takes exception to my SHS post suggesting that egg selling be banned. (Whimper). From his entry:Somehow it seems unjust to me to ask women to undergo what all acknowledge to be a difficult, painful, and for some women risky process to donate eggs—whether for altruistic or . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a very good column in The Australian, that debunks global warming. But that is not why I bring it up, as we don’t discuss the ins and outs of that issue here. In “Climate Hysterics v Heretics in An Age of Unreason,” Arthur Herman shows how science devolves into . . . . Continue Reading »
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, rightly called “one of the great souls of the age,” passed away last night in Moscow. Best known for his piercing depictions of Soviet labor camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and the three-volume Gulag Archipelago (1973–1978), . . . . Continue Reading »
This is what I wrote in Culture of Death (page 69, paperback version), which first came out in early 2001:The attitude that it is better to die than live cognitively disabled has triumphed so completely in our medical culture that some doctors now report a rush to write off newly unconscious . . . . Continue Reading »
The animal rights fanatics are getting closer and closer to killing somebody. In the most recent attacks, UC Santa Cruz researchers were the victims of firebombs. One was a car, the other was of a house—with people in residence! From the story:In the off-campus incident, a well-known molecular . . . . Continue Reading »
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