Ernest Hemingway once wrote a short one act play about Jesus. Very few people know about it. The title is Today is Friday.The play opens with three Roman soldiers are in a bar drinking away the stresses of a long, brutal day of crucifixion.The third soldier is sick and rueful. He complains about . . . . Continue Reading »
I have embedded the trailer for the upcoming puff HBO bio of the murderer Jack Kevorkian, entitled, You Don’t Know Jack, at the bottom of this post. Before viewing it, take a look at a few of the key aspects of Kevorkian’s “career” that I have listed below. Anyone want . . . . Continue Reading »
This afternoon First Things is joining with fifty other religious and human rights organizations and leaders to protest the recent massacre of Christians in Nigeria, as well as persecution and slaughter of Christians and other minorities living under Shariah rule. The protest will take place at the . . . . Continue Reading »
Can Animals Be Gay? asks the New York Times , in a long and rather interesting article, which treds carefully on the question of whether such terms as “gay” can be used of animals and whether their behavior provides any insight into or guidance for human behavior. Conservative activists . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the third post devoted to the content of my new book. In the first post, I quoted from novelist Dean Koontz’s preface, and about six weeks ago, I excerpted the opening section of the Introduction. Today, we conclude our look at the Introduction, in which I . . . . Continue Reading »
You might have seen the billboard for the new HBO movie on Jack Kevorkian. I did, this week, on the walk to work. It shows a close-up of Al Pacino, who plays Jack Kevorkian in the movie, with heavy glasses and a half grin on his face. The caption reads “Is This the Face of a Killer?” My . . . . Continue Reading »
My first reaction to the breaking story of Fr. Maciel’s money is one of today’s On the Square notes . . . . . Continue Reading »
When it comes to higher education, many conservatives talk about Great Books programs as if they are a panacea for all that ails the liberal academy. But anyone who has actually read those texts will likely agree with Patrick Deneen’s contention that “a curriculum of great books . . . . Continue Reading »
In the Wall Street Journal today, My friend Peter Berkowitz offers a defense of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s attempt to ban the full veiling of Muslim women in France. “Restrictions on liberty in a free society are always suspect and in need of justification,” Peter wisely . . . . Continue Reading »
On Easter Sunday a magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook the US-Mexico border, killing two people and injuring 233. Southern California Earthquake Center, relying on all that science stuff, says the cause was a tectonic shift between the Pacific plate and the North American plate boundaries. But . . . . Continue Reading »
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