Upon the occasion of Zimbabwe’s independence, Bob Marley wrote a song unimaginatively titled “Zimbabwe.” Marley may not have been the sage many of his fans take him for, but Zimbabwe’s post-independence decline into bloody tyranny makes these lines from the song seem . . . . Continue Reading »
A great comfort to many of my socially liberal interlocutors in college bull-sessions was the seemingly inevitable leftward drift of Western Europe, reflected in the increasing permissiveness of elected officials across the political spectrum. But The Economist says that Britain’s Tories may . . . . Continue Reading »
An interesting ESCR success was published in the journal Blood. ES cells were morphed into blood, offering the potential of greatly easing blood shortages and making transfusions safer for patients. From the story: In the new study, researchers were able to make as many as 100 billion red blood . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s another event in the New York area that you might consider attending. Starting on September 6, on the first Saturday of every month, there will be Witness for Life, an event sponsored by The Helpers of God’s Precious Infants with the help of the Sisters of Life and the Friars of . . . . Continue Reading »
The stem cell issue sure didn’t turn out to be as potent—or as important—as people expected this time last year. With the IPSC breakthrough, President Bush’s funding limitations ceased to be a cutting edge issue in the presidential campaign. That won’t matter to Senator . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things is pretty cool, but The Onion is quite simply the greatest magazine in America. . . . . Continue Reading »
As you may have noticed by now, I’ve turned into quite the Olympics junkie. I just can’t get enough of the stuff. This morning I wrote about the Brit who won a gold medal in sailing by purposefully delaying his closest competitor. Last week, we heard the story of Oksana Chusovitina, who . . . . Continue Reading »
Heavy-handed didacticism is the great danger that all religious artists must fear, because it compromises art and renders faith no great service. Our beloved Flannery O’Connor avoided this danger admirably. In most of her stories, ‘Christianity’ is either absent or repulsive, yet . . . . Continue Reading »
Last night, Britain’s Paul Goodison took home a gold medal in men’s sailing. At least on paper, there can be no doubt that he deserved to win. As the Wall Street Journal reports , however, his strategy in the final race could hardly be described as Olympian: Brit Paul Goodison entered . . . . Continue Reading »
Britain has long been a reliable ally of the United States, but Britons are far from immune to the anti-Americanism that pervades Europe. Many patriotic Americans are likely to think that this attitude must come from some combination of envy and wrongheaded ideology, but a poll commissioned by . . . . Continue Reading »
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