In the December issue of First Things , Hadley Arkes reflected on the prospects of a Giuliani presidency . His article came under attack from David Frum in National Review . Readers may be interested in reading Arkes’ response here . . . . . Continue Reading »
In the NRO, I credited President Bush’s ESCR funding restrictions for having played a part into the quest to find non-embryonic sources of pluripotent stem cells—cells “the scientists” insisted they needed to fulfill the total promise of regenerative medicine. My thinking is . . . . Continue Reading »
It seems that the Archbishop of York, Dr. John Sentamu, is a right cut-up . If he were a member of TEC, Bishop Jefferts Schori would no doubt announce that the clerical collar was church property and promptly take him to court—but not before declaring the archbishop’s rabbat officially . . . . Continue Reading »
In his post J. Bottum has drawn attention to what can only be called a poor-sign of the times. Or is that a sign of poor times? . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh, my. The blogger Nancykay Shapiro posts photos of the meat counter last week at Balducci’s, an upscale grocery on 8th Avenue and 14th Street here in New York: Ah, yes, that famous kosher spiral-cut ham. . . . . Continue Reading »
A few weeks ago we all heard the announcement of a major scientific breakthrough that allowed scientists to create the equivalent of human embryonic stem cells (called induced pluripotent stem cells) but without using or destroying embryos. Joseph Bottum wrote about the implications here , and I . . . . Continue Reading »
Omaha, my adopted hometown, was in the news last week. A nineteen-year-old went into a mall and shot a dozen people, killing eight, and then himself. A few days later I had dinner with an Israeli friend. “Suicide bombers I understand,” he told me. “They kill innocent people, but . . . . Continue Reading »
So Martin Scorsese discovers three pages from a never-made Hitchcock film, entitled The Key to Reserva, and vows to make it as Hitchcock would have made it “back then,” only “now.” Funny, and more entertaining than 82 percent of what’s released into theaters . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
Why is it a commonplace to speak in terms of the religious right and secular left? Surely there has been a secular right: Ayn Rand, Friedrich Hayek, supply-siders, libertarians, and so forth. And there has been a Christian Left: Walter Rauschenbusch, Dorothy Day, and of course the Democratic . . . . Continue Reading »
While archiving First Things’ past issues the other day, I came across these lines. Had Edna St. Vincent Millay lived to see the twenty-first century, the information-deluge would have taken on a whole new dimension! Upon this age, that never speaks its mind, This furtive age, this age . . . . Continue Reading »
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