On Real Clear Politics, Cal Thomas writes that the Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips of the United Kingdom has ruled that “Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.” And that includes the Islamic legal . . . . Continue Reading »
John Esposito is the leading voice today for those who think the likes of Samuel Huntington and Bernard Lewis make far too much of the religious and cultural differences between the West and the Islamic world. Esposito, the founding director of Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed bin . . . . Continue Reading »
The philanthropist Sir John Marks Templeton passed away today—a sad moment for all who benefited from his support and his ideas. Born in Tennessee, he attended Yale University and Oxford before becoming an enormously successful investor in world markets. Both his education in England and his . . . . Continue Reading »
I leave most of the Anglican-watching, Anglican-speculating to Jordan Hylden, but here’s a story that was left out of yesterday’s post. Over the weekend, reports came that “senior” bishops from the C of E had met with Catholic officials about swimming the Tiber en masse. . . . . Continue Reading »
“I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world—that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest . . . . Continue Reading »
Word engineering has always been intrinsic to the euthanasia movement. Always. Indeed, today mercy killing and euthanasia are synonyms thanks to the euthanasia movement of the late 19th Century. Before that, the term “good death” meant dying peacefully (and naturally) in a state of . . . . Continue Reading »
Sadly, our friend Thomas M. Disch has passed away , and even more sadly, apparently by his own hand on the Fourth of July. The man could do anything involving words. He wrote award-winning science fiction such as Camp Concentration and (my favorite) the bleak volume The Genocides . He wrote a . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s Wall Street Journal , Dorothy Rabinowitz examines the hypersensitivity to race that recently manifested itself on Purdue’s campus and notes that it’s headed into the politcal arena. . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a nice article about the new Bioethics Institute and Chair at Franciscan University. Patrick Lee, a collegue of mine at the Witherspoon Institute , is doing great work at Franciscan. . . . . Continue Reading »
What began as a little joke around the office has become a grass-roots political movement online. Richard John Neuhaus in 2008. News Channel 3 explains: http://www.news3online.com/index.php?code=603a543g92Is08HvrocI . . . . Continue Reading »
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