Mark Misulia

As reported most recently in the New York Times , a small number of advocates are putting some of the nation’s largest retailers, including Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and Wal-Mart, on the spot for their indirect funneling of money to Christian non-profits that denounce homosexual practice and . . . . Continue Reading »

While it is difficult to tell nowadays what is meant by the terms “liberal” or “conservative,” it is especially difficult to understand what is meant by the term “progressive.” Anthony Esolen weighs in: The term does not actually denominate anything. It is the . . . . Continue Reading »

Matthew Robert has written an interesting piece for The Brussels Journal in which he describes how the nations of the Global South have become the nascent heart of a new Christendom: “In short, the Global South does not care whether Westerns deny that a particular practice is Christian. . . . . Continue Reading »

Google Inc. has just introduced a new suite of applications, Google for Nonprofits. The suite will include significant discounts and advantages for a wide range of Google products, from grants for advertising on AdWords to free licenses for Google Earth Pro. However, the corporate giant has also . . . . Continue Reading »

John Farrel has written a piece for Forbes in which he cites the University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne : “I’ve always maintained that this piece of the Old Testament, which is easily falsified by modern genetics (modern humans descended from a group of no fewer than 10,000 . . . . Continue Reading »

While I was finishing my undergraduate degree in philosophy, a friend of mine majoring in biology joked that I would have no trouble finding employment—he’d checked the yellow-pages, and there was no competition for philosophers. But according to Emily Wax at the Washington Post , . . . . Continue Reading »

Despite Archbishop John J. Meyers’ critique of a gay marriage course taught at the diocesan Seton Hall University in the Fall 2010, Professor W. King Mott of the political science department will be teaching it again this Fall . Archbishop Meyers affirms his responsibility for maintaining the . . . . Continue Reading »

The same attorney who has won public notice for trying to sue McDonald’s on the grounds that the institution is responsible for America’s obesity is now behind the now well-known sex-discrimination lawsuit against Catholic University’s decision to reintroduce single-sex . . . . Continue Reading »

If you return from the beachside Light-Hearted Philosophers Conference seeking another way to avoid using philosophy to solve more pressing ethical problems, consider the 6th International Conference On the Philosophy of Computer Games , to be held in Madrid in January. The conference is looking . . . . Continue Reading »

Stefan McDaniel, writing for Public Discourse, invites us to consider a striking (though not original) punitive reward for criminals, argued for by former Baltimore cop Peter Moskos in his own In Defense of Flogging : “It’s important to say that Moskos seems to mean this seriously. There . . . . Continue Reading »