Nathaniel Peters

Logic dictates that if you introduce a policy that restricts procreation in a culture that values boys over girls, you will end up with significantly fewer girls. The New Republic reminds us that t hat’s exactly what’s happened in China : “The one-child policy was instituted in an . . . . Continue Reading »

On Real Clear Politics, Cal Thomas writes that the Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips of the United Kingdom has ruled that “Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.” And that includes the Islamic legal . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s Wall Street Journal , Dorothy Rabinowitz examines the hypersensitivity to race that recently manifested itself on Purdue’s campus and notes that it’s headed into the politcal arena. . . . . Continue Reading »

“I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: ‘If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.’ Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.” So writes Christopher Hitchens in the August issue of Vanity Fair , after . . . . Continue Reading »

The New York Times reports that a German activist for assisted suicide filmed himself assist a healthy seventy-nine-year-old woman end her life. Ms. Schardt, 79, a retired X-ray technician from the Bavarian city of Würzburg, was neither sick nor dying. She simply did not want to move . . . . Continue Reading »

On July 25, a new film of Brideshead Revisited will be released. It has much promise, especially with Emma Thompson as Lady Marchmain, so keep your eyes open for reviews and the movie itself later in July. . . . . Continue Reading »

In Wales, Leslie and Nick Hartland are fighting to keep their six-year-old daughter Amber on a ventilator, and therefore alive. Amber has Infantile Tay-Sachs, an incurable brain disease, and was hospitalized with a chest infection. A judge will soon rule on whether doctors can “withdraw the . . . . Continue Reading »

What looks to be a smashing exhibit of J.M.W. Turner opens today at the Met: The first retrospective of the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) presented in the United States in more than forty years, this international exhibition highlights approximately 140 paintings and watercolors—more . . . . Continue Reading »

Shopping for light summer reading is like shopping for desserts in a supermarket. Most books are unfortunately like Hostess twinkies, but if you look hard enough you can find a nice crème brûlée or a tarte aux framboises . (Okay, it’s like shopping in a . . . . Continue Reading »

David Warren gives us the latest on Mark Steyn and the Canadian human rights courts: As was perfunctorily reported on Thursday, the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission, one of three HRCs to which Islamists took Maclean’s magazine for having published Mark Steyn, has . . . . Continue Reading »