On Thursday, September 18, at 5:00 PM, the Metropolitan Opera will put on Verdi’s Requiem in honor of the first anniversary of Luciano Pavarotti’s death on September 6, 2007. James Levine will conduct the Met’s orchestra and chorus, with Barbara Frittoli, soprano, Olga Borodina, . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a new angle on the right of patients to demand treatment and when doctors can say no. This time it involves a religious objection to providing artificial insemination for a lesbian.The doctor believed it was immoral to help a homosexual get pregnant and refused to participate, but referred . . . . Continue Reading »
I can’t find it now, but I remember an article in the Economist a few years ago arguing that chivalric honors were useful to have because they gave governments a harmless way to honor people without, say, giving them actual responsibilities and powers. They also are pretty silly. England has . . . . Continue Reading »
Much has been written on Alexander Solzhenitsyn over the last few weeks, but Harvey Mansfield’s reflections on the pointed Harvard speech , from the current issue of the Weekly Standard , are not to be missed. Some highlights: In perhaps the most interesting and original of . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at The New Republic , Alan Wolfe has some nice things to say about Rick Warren. But then, he gets hysterical: Even as recently as the Jimmy Carter presidency, evangelicals put God before party. But starting with the Reagan years, they increasingly reversed their priorities. Jesus no longer . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend Stanley Kurtz writes about being locked out of the special collections at the library of the University of Illinois in Chicago. He’d attempted to look at open records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, as part of his quest to determine the connections between ex-Weatherman Bill . . . . Continue Reading »
National Review is reporting that officials in the McCain campaign are calling state Republican officials around the country to gauge how much support they would lose if McCain named a pro-choice politician as his vice-presidential running mate. National Review ‘s editorial today lays out . . . . Continue Reading »
Senator Barack Obama said Saturday night that the time in which human rights should apply are “above my pay grade.” When do you think human rights apply? ( . . . . Continue Reading »
The saga of uncovering Shakespeare’s religion continues with Joseph Pierce’s new book, The Quest for Shakespeare , and Robert Miola’s recent FT review, now available to non-subscribers. The tension runs high on both sides: At a conceptual level The Quest for Shakespeare repeatedly . . . . Continue Reading »
Dr. Hymie Gordon (Mayo Clinic): “By all criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception.” Dr. Micheline Matthews-Roth (Harvard University Medical School): “It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at . . . . Continue Reading »
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