Ryan T. Anderson

The trash isn’t picked up on time, and the public schools are failing, but at least New York City is on top of condom distribution. New Yorkers will be greeted by city health officials today handing out special NYC condoms; the slogan: “get some.” Article here and here (with . . . . Continue Reading »

And so there’s no reason to let it get in the way of your education. Here are some summer programs that our student-readers might want to apply for. The WITHERSPOON INSTITUTE is pleased announce the creation of the Schreyer Summer Seminars and is accepting applications to its six summer . . . . Continue Reading »

And they’re not embryonic. “Scientists say they have replaced a 65-year-old patient’s upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.” Article here . . . . . Continue Reading »

“Dutch Catholics have re-branded the Lent fast as the ‘Christian Ramadan’ in an attempt to appeal to young people who are more likely to know about Islam than Christianity.” The story is here . . . . . Continue Reading »

In yesterday’s New York Times Book Review Will Saletan reviewed Embryo: A Defense of Human Life . Robert George and Chris Tollefsen, the authors of Embryo , have a response up on NRO . . . . . Continue Reading »

Articles from this weekend (just a portion, hardly exhaustive) that may interest anyone interested in religion, culture, and public life: Catholic vote and Hilary Clinton ( NY Times ) Rabbis criticizing the revised Good Friday praye r ( NY Times ) James Dobson and John McCain ( Wall Street Journal . . . . Continue Reading »

Uh, no, Nathaniel, I don’t think that’s it at all . Our disagreement was about your overly-simplistic approach to this question, an approach you continue to take in your most recent post. You said the answers to these questions were “obvious;” I said they weren’t . I . . . . Continue Reading »

The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good —-that’s the title of a 2006 book by NYU economics professor William Easterly. Fr. Neuhaus commented on the book in The Public Square back then (scroll down to the second . . . . Continue Reading »

Archbishop Chaput’s article on the First Things homepage deserves broad dissemination. It’s a welcome follow-up to the issue that I blogged about last week . When I reviewed John DiIulio’s new book in National Review , I closed with this: The health of America’s religions . . . . Continue Reading »

Nathaniel, I’m not so sure about your post on college endowments . Maybe it’s just because I’m dull (a thesis, admittedly, that has floated about this office on more than one occasion), but the questions whose answers you think should be “obvious” seem legitimate to . . . . Continue Reading »