2011
New Year’s Thoughts
between putting the baby to bed and watching the Twilight Zone marathon: 1. I saw Romney’s stump…
WHO Wants Tight Controls On “Armageddon” Flu Experiments
Scientists have mutated a bird flu virus—which I call the Armageddon flu because it has a 50%…
Robinson’s Ressourcement
I shall now snootily subvert “the year in culture” blog post genre by linking to one from…
Very Quick Points
No time to link, but: 1. Well, they have Paul on tape out of Sioux City talking…
Beware the “Rights of Nature”
As regular readers of Secondhand Smoke know, I am very concerned about the growing anti-humanism permeating enviromental…
Late Term Abortionists Charged With Murder
Two abortionist doctors have been charged with murder for the deaths of babies killed during late term…
Libertarianism and Christianity
On this the penultimate day of the year, with just a few (too few, in my view)…
The Relativity of the Market
Joyce Appleby’s Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England has a forbiddingly monographic title, but don’t be…
Should Doctors Tell the Non Terminal Elderly When They Will Die?
I find it odd that learned medical commentators would think that octogenarians and nonagenarians would not be aware…
IVF Clinics Supply Embryos For Destructive Research Without Consent of Egg Donors
When a woman donates her eggs for one purpose—to help another woman have a child—is it right…
On the Square Today
Peter J. Leithart proposes to begin a sensible discussion of empire : 1) Whether power is good…
First Links – 12.30.11
Going Home Again New York Times , David Brooks Does Anyone in the Media Ever Read the…
Conservative oppressors
In the latest issue of the NYRB , Mark Lilla takes apart Corey Robin’s recent The Reactionary…
Debt Limit
(Via: Take Your Vitamin Z )
