I had not expected to see the headline A Dionysian End to Summer in Inside Higher Ed , but we live in strange times: Smith College rings in the new academic year in a most revealing way. Still, administrators worry that its students may not be putting their best foot forward. As a result, the . . . . Continue Reading »
The last thing I want to do is prolong what has become a rather ugly debate over Conor’s suggestion that Palin be dropped from the ticket, but I think there’s some profit in pointing out one misstep in his logic. I could probably state my entire objection in a single . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday afternoon at Princeton University, First Things board member Robert P. George hosted a reception for pro-life and pro-family members of the Princeton community. At the end of his brief address, Prof. George invited those faculty members and ministers of religion who were present to say a . . . . Continue Reading »
For those of us out there, economists and laypeople alike, who are left scratching our heads at the current economic crisis, here’s a new theory, based on the study of information networks, that might shed some light on the problem: “[The U.S.] market economy is nothing more than a . . . . Continue Reading »
In the Sunday bulletin at Church of Our Saviour there was a good quotation from Mother Teresa on the topic of abortion and human rights. I discovered that the quotation came from an amicus brief that she filed for the cases of Loce v. New Jersey and Krail et al. v. New Jersey in February 1994. The . . . . Continue Reading »
McCain is down in the national polls well beyond the margin of error with less than a month to go, so a change in strategy seems imperative. Our own Peter Lawler suggests , among other things, that McCain start focusing on the blank check an Obama victory would be to a very unpopular and very . . . . Continue Reading »
As I write these words, the stock markets around the world are tanking in the wake of a nearly trillion dollar bailout that the experts designed to prevent this very collapse. Oops.Financial issues are not what we do here, but I think there is an aspect of the financial crisis . . . . Continue Reading »
The next time a surgeon accidentally leaves a sponge inside a patient or a nurse administers the wrong type of blood in a transfusion, Medicare and the taxpayer will no longer pay to clean up the mess: Medicare, the government insurance program for the elderly and disabled, will stop paying . . . . Continue Reading »
A little Rowan Atkinson for your Monday morning: . . . . Continue Reading »
In an article “Iran’s ‘Bob Dylan’ Under Fire Over Qu’ran Song,” Radio Farda reports that Mohsen Namjoo, Iran’s most popular, and controversial, musician, has provoked the wrath of “Qu’ran experts and religious figures” who say . . . . Continue Reading »
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