Over at the Wall Street Journal , Ian Johnson has written an interesting article on the ranking of countries competing in the Olympics. Not surprisingly, figuring out who is actually winning is no easy task: Despite all the high-tech clocks, cameras and sensors, the Olympics still can’t give . . . . Continue Reading »
Who says that the value of human life is on the wane? In Scotland, a man murdered his wife, and because he has dementia, the judge has banned him from pubs rather than sending him to jail. From the story:Lord Matthews told the defendant: “You were found guilty of the culpable homicide of your . . . . Continue Reading »
If The Economist is to be trusted , Bavaria gives the lie to the secularist story of modernity, according to which man has only achieved health, wealth, and education in proportion as he has cast off the fetters of religion and tradition. This deeply traditional and still strongly Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »
Ryan has a point. Ever since online companies have attempted to improve upon reference books by making them up-to-the-minute online resources, they risk the quality of the information it’s their job to supply, while trying to keep their info-hungry readers satisfied. This is particularly a . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the future that Futile Care theorists hold for us. If you sign an advance medical directive granting a proxy the right to make your health decisions on your behalf in the event of incapacity—and that proxy wants life support ceased—that decision is sacrosanct, and woe betide the . . . . Continue Reading »
Google, the everything-and-anything internet company that makes earning money look like a cakewalk, was accused this week of removing Georgia and Armenia from its searchable “Google Maps” site after an armed conflict broke out in the region. Google has issued a statement saying that it . . . . Continue Reading »
Your favorite author on ” The Living Church: Revisiting Vatican II .” Here’s a taste: “Before and after”—that gets to the heart of most of the disputes about the council. Up through the 1980s, self-identified liberals routinely spoke of the “pre-Vatican II . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Potemra tells us that in Bernard-Henri Levy’s forthcoming book Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism , there is an interesting line from the journals of Paul Claudel. On May 21, 1935, Claudel wrote, “Hitler’s speech: a kind of Islamism is being created at . . . . Continue Reading »
Salve Iosephe , Litterae de lingua latina scripta in Res Primae accipio tuus qui post-electronica fero. Ut praeclarissimus magister Mantuae dixit, ut mihi iam verum videatur illud esse quod non nulli litteris ac studiis doctrinae dediti quasi quiddam incredibile dicere putabantur. Promoveo linguam . . . . Continue Reading »
As if it were really needed, here is further proof that animal research is absolutely necessary to the alleviation of human suffering and finding treatments for terrible afflictions: Scientsts have been able to recreate Alzheimer’s disease in mouse models which will permit the affliction to be . . . . Continue Reading »
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