In keeping with our journal’s spirit of unremitting morbidity , I spent this past Saturday morning in a graveyard. This was no ordinary graveyard, mind you, but Princeton Cemetery , which has been called the “Westminster Abbey of the United States.” Dozens of luminaries, including . . . . Continue Reading »
Starting Monday, September 8, Fr. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., will be giving a series of seven lectures on the life and works of John Henry Cardinal Newman, with a special focus on his An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent . The lectures are from 6:30 to 7:30 PM in the undercroft of the Church of . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week I posted two criticisms of the NEJM article advocating the dismantling of the dead donor rule (here and here) that requires death before the taking of vital organs. I got some backstage blowback that I painted with too broad a brush about the kind of support such proposals have within . . . . Continue Reading »
” Save the world! Stop having children! Such was the rather drastic solution to the problem of climate change proposed in an editorial in the prestigious British Medical Journal , no less, the other day.” As The Independent goes on to note , the paranoia of overpopulation is nothing . . . . Continue Reading »
Walking in the underground tunnel between Times Square and Port Authority, I overheard a conversation between a father and his young son as they passed a man handing out literature on the “hard facts” of heaven and hell: Son: Daddy, what’s hell? Father: Well, it’s a place . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier I posted a note about our junior fellow Stefan McDaniel’s essay on friendship in the magazine Dappled Things . As I was reading the new issue yesterday, I came across an artful poem by Roger Mitchell that employs the metaphor of barrel-making to describe marriage: Holy Matrimony . . . . Continue Reading »
A small group of U.S. evangelists have had their Bibles confiscated at an airport in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming—and they’re not leaving without them. Chinese officials say it’s illegal to bring into the country printed religious material beyond that required for . . . . Continue Reading »
A notice in the New York Times on Saturday: Correction: August 16, 2008. An article on Friday about the planned construction of two large solar power installations in California described incorrectly the operation of the solar panels in one, to be built by SunPower. Its panels pivot from east to . . . . Continue Reading »
America’s best hope for a medal in boxing, Demetrius Andrade, the reigning welterweight world champ was upset in a quaterfinal bout on Sunday . After the fight Andrade exhibited astonishingly poor sportsmanship by leaving the ring before the referee announced the official decision. So it was . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh, oh. A-list movie star Gwyneth Paltrow has endorsed a clothing company that uses animal skin in some of its products, and predictably, the animal rights ideologues are coming unglued. From the story: The Hollywood star has been signed up by Italian designer Tod’s and is pictured draped in . . . . Continue Reading »
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