A junior fellow who shall remain nameless (Nathaniel Peters, graduate of Swarthmore College, photo and other identifying marks to follow) forwarded this YouTube video to me with extreme prejudice. I don’t get it . . . the gentleman in the red jersey obviously enjoys an intense work ethic and . . . . Continue Reading »
India is searching for a monster who convinced the destitute to sell their kidneys at bargain basement prices and sold them for a huge profit. But the real empowerers of this atrocity are the foreigners who wanted new kidneys and didn’t care who got hurt in the process. From the story: India . . . . Continue Reading »
I have written several posts about the need to develop uniform standards of declaring death by neurological criteria—popularly known as “brain death.” Now, there’s some more information out about that problem. From the story:Guidelines for determining brain death differ . . . . Continue Reading »
Regarding Ryan’s ruminations on S.M. Hutchens’ review of E.O. Wilson’s The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (warning: I’ve read neither the book nor the review, just Ryan’s post about them), I think Ryan has it right in concluding that in Wilson’s . . . . Continue Reading »
In the Catholic Church, today is the memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas. In the Office of Readings for the day, we find this passage by Thomas: The Cross exemplifies every virtue Why did the Son of God have to suffer for us? There was a great need, and it can be considered in a twofold way: in the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Eve of St. Agnes—Green Bay, 2008 John Keats for Today’s Reader Saint Agnes Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was, The coach for all his sweaters was acold; The team limped weakly through the frozen grass, And bundled were the fans, a woolly fold. Numb were the passer’s fingers as . . . . Continue Reading »
Time to apply for the Junior Fellowship at First Things . As I wrote last year , here are Some of the Things You Might Do As a First Things Junior Fellow (Not All in One Week): Monday, 3 pm: First Things editorial meeting; 8 pm: $15 tickets for Wagner’s Die Walküre at the . . . . Continue Reading »
The most robust opponents of assisted suicide—and the most effective in my view—are disability rights advocates. They understand well that legalizing assisted suicide is a gun aimed at their hearts. An opinion column by one Ian Mulgrew of the Vancouver Sun underscores the threat. He . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve finally gotten around to reading the new issue of The New Atlantis . For those not familiar with it, The New Atlantis is published by the Ethics and Public Policy Center and has legitimate claim to being America’s premiere “Journal of Technology and Society.” In this . . . . Continue Reading »
The US has “In God We Trust,” the French have “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité,” but the British don’t have anything. And they seem to like it that way. Recently the Times of London sponsored a motto-writing contest, the winner . . . . Continue Reading »
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