Ryan T. Anderson

While I liked Rick’s comments on the Mirror of Justice site, I was a little confused by Rob Vischer’s recent post . He comments on a Boston Globe article on recent pushes by academics to have the law recognize friendships: The article does not focus on the SSM debate, but this issue . . . . Continue Reading »

The discussions seem endless these days, but Rick Garnett’s comments on Doug Kmiec’s latest article are worth reading. A taste: That said, Doug’s column goes off course in a few places, I think. He writes: Given that abortion is an intrinsic evil without justification, thinking . . . . Continue Reading »

Frequent First Things contributor Alan Jacobs has a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal , ” Too Much Faith in Faith .” It’s a provocative thesis—that Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and all the other atheism-pushers uncritically attribute too large of a role to religion. . . . . Continue Reading »

That seems to be what Forbes magazine is after in this interview with stem-cell scientist extraordinaire James Thomson. BioEdge highlights these excerpts from Thomson: ? “I do think there will be some niches where transplantation is important, but I think people are grossly underestimating . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, and Nathaniel , if you think Canada is bad, did you see what’s up at Yale? Here’s a bit from Michael Gerson’s column in yesterday’s Washington Post : The American kickoff of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation last week unintentionally revealed the mountain of . . . . Continue Reading »

“Look, when we think about ending an early human life, this is something that is really bad for the embryo or early fetus that dies, it’s losing out tremendously¯I agree with that as I already said. And then you said that it’s one of the things that we should care about. And, um, . . . . Continue Reading »

A knock-off on “Stuff White People Like” but this is pretty funny: http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com/ Some highlights: http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com/2008/04/189-gdtr.html http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com/2008/04/187-leaving-room-for-holy-spirit-when.html . . . . Continue Reading »

The blogosphere and op/ed pages have been abuzz the past few days discussing Obama and the Catholics, especially after Hilary Clinton took 70% of the Catholic voters in the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary. One of the key issues that has come up again and again has been abortion, on the assumption . . . . Continue Reading »

Nathaniel, at least Coolio had the good sense of keeping some of the original phrasing—-No, “And even though I walk through the Hood of death,” here. From the 1995 movie “Dangerous Minds”: . . . . Continue Reading »

Bob Novak chastised the archbishops of Washington and New York in his Washington Post column today . Novak argued that the bishops invited pro-abort politicians to attend the Papal Mass, which implicitly included a welcome to the communion rail. And in doing so they had subverted Benedict’s . . . . Continue Reading »