Ryan Sayre Patrico

Because not everyone can afford to wait for a new profit model. . . . . Continue Reading »

From the Wall Street Journal : Massachusetts sued the federal government Wednesday, seeking to overturn a key part of the U.S. law that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. The lawsuit, brought by the first state to legalize gay marriage, said the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act . . . . Continue Reading »

And no, not false dignity . Rather, the kind of dignity where, as the founder of this magazine once put it, one “neither refuses to live nor fears to die”: Gravely ill with heart disease, tethered to an oxygen tank, her feet swollen and her appetite gone, Sister Dorothy Quinn, 87, . . . . Continue Reading »

At least, it should be : About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been recovered and put on the internet. Visitors to the website www.codexsinaiticus.org can now see images of more than half the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript. Fragments of the 4th Century . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at Books & Culture , yours truly has a review of Mike Rapport’s 1848: Year of Revolution : The year was 1848, and Europe was burning: The fires of revolution had flared up in country after country, each blaze erupting separately yet all feeding on the same fuel of social unrest and . . . . Continue Reading »

The Guardian thinks so . I hope to be one someday, so I’m not going to disagree. . . . . Continue Reading »

“We’re not mad Frankensteins working away in our laboratories to create designer babies. We are only allowed to look for major diseases which cause handicaps.” That is, until they realize how much money could be made creating designer babies. I have a suspicious feeling that, as . . . . Continue Reading »

Canon lawyer Ed Peters takes apart L’Osservatore Romano ‘s recent tribute to Michael Jackson: For most of my life L’Osservatore Romano has been a sleepy Roman rag that arrived weeks after its publication date, printed in cheap ink that soiled the fingers of those who felt the need . . . . Continue Reading »

In light of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and Utah Senator John Ensign’s recent scandals, Christopher O. Tollefsen takes a philosophical look at the problem of hypocrisy: La Rochefoucauld famously said that “hypocrisy is a tribute vice pays to virtue.” This is often . . . . Continue Reading »

Not much, if at all, argues Jim Manzi at The American Scene : The total net expected benefits of the best-imaginable program to combat global warming are about $3.4 trillion. This is about 0.17% of the expected present value of total global income. Compare the current Waxman-Markey bill to “an . . . . Continue Reading »