Ryan T. Anderson

There was a just down-right bizarre op/ed in Sunday’s New York Times . Here’s the penultimate paragraph: Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at . . . . Continue Reading »

From the New York Times Magazine article: ” Did You Hear the One About the Christian Comedian? ” Renfroe is also a devout Christian and for about eight years has been slowly building a career as a comedian on the Christian women’s circuit. Like Mike Huckabee’s easy humor, . . . . Continue Reading »

A few weeks ago, William Saletan reviewed the new book Embryo in the New York Times Book Review . Robert George and Chris Tollefsen (the co-authors of Embryo ) replied the next day in an article for National Review Online . Saletan replied later that week with an article on Slate . Now George and . . . . Continue Reading »

A week or so ago I mentioned some summer programs that the Witherspoon Institute is putting on . Here’s another summer program that might interest young readers. I was a Publius Fellow this past summer and highly recommend it. The Claremont Institute is now accepting applications for the 2008 . . . . Continue Reading »

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23227651/ (Well, one comment, this guy is head pastor at “Relevant Church” . . . ) . . . . Continue Reading »

In Saturday’s Wall Street Journal , Peter Berkowitz had an interesting op/ed on ” The Neocons and Iraq .” His thesis? The neocons weren’t neoconish enough. Hardly a new observation, but the piece is worth reading. Here’s a taste: The Moynihan report and the Kirkpatrick . . . . Continue Reading »

I missed it earlier in the week, but this column in The New Republic by literary editor Leon Wieseltier shouldn’t go unnoticed. Here’s his opening: What you think of a presidential candidate is in large measure determined by what you think of the world. Different circumstances call for . . . . Continue Reading »

Two new papers have just been published documenting further advances with induced pluripotent stem cells—-stem cells that are “embryonic-like” but that are not derived from embryos. When the announcement was made about the successful attempts at creating induced pluripotent stem . . . . Continue Reading »

What was common sense for my grandmother. Science Daily reports : Active father figures have a key role to play in reducing behaviour problems in boys and psychological problems in young women, according to a review published in the February issue of Acta Paediatrica. Swedish researchers also found . . . . Continue Reading »

LifeSiteNews reports : 65-year-old Raleane “Rae” Kupferschmidt’s relatives were told by doctors that she was “brain dead” after she had suffered a massive cerebral haemorrhage in mid-January. Her family had taken her home to die and were in the process of grieving and . . . . Continue Reading »