Science & Technology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Standing Against the Human “Dignity Deniers”
God may not be dead, but considering the imago Dei in philosophical discourse and public policy certainly…
Prisoners Are Calling. Who’s Answering?
Prisons, at the very minimum are intended as quarantine; keeping cities and towns safer by removing criminals…
Incurious Dawkins
An Appetite for Wonder:The Making of a Scientistby richard dawkinsecco, 320 pages, $27.99 Richard Dawkins’ An Appetite…
Bullets and Beatitudes
Antonia and Antonio. They lived in the same barrio; both were members of Our Lady of Refuge…
Rediscovering Hollywood’s Eve
Playing a middle-aged woman still remorseful about the teenage decision to give up her out-of-wedlock baby for…
Keeping Time
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor New York Review Books, 112 pages, $12.95 paper…
The Mailbox
This white-dust road is in for an evil storm today. The wind seems up to something by…
Briefly Noted 210
Benedict XVI: The Man Who Was Ratzinger by michael s. rose spence, 182 pages, $22.95 The author…
Religion and Politics Debate
On Saturday, November 10, at Gotham Hall in New York City, The Economist magazine will sponsor a…
The Politics of Bioethics
Is “human dignity” a useful concept in bioethics? Does it shed important light on the whole range…
The Ten Commandments of … What?
I present to you a document of some forty pages entitled ” Guidelines for the Pastoral Care…
America’s Greatest Mystery Writer
G.K. Chesterton’s Fr. Brown stories are proof that only the British style of detective fiction can reach…
Fallout
We will, I imagine, be talking about the Supreme Court’s decision in Gonzales v. Carhart for a…
Briefly Noted — 02/07
American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short by robert wuthnow princeton…
Bottum: Who to Reread in 2007
It’s weeks into 2007 already, and I don’t really know what I’m going to read this year.…