This is a follow up of an earlier post discussing Australia’s refusal to grant a German physician and his family permanent residency because his son has Down. Well the light of publicity apparently so embarrassed the country that the decision has been reversed. From the story:A decision to . . . . Continue Reading »
Geez, you write a piece on pointed musical assertions of cultural identity, and folks seem to take notice. Another friend wrote and directed me to a song by the Afrikaner folk and rock singer, Bok van Blerk. This one (not surprisingly) has generated controversy in South Africa, where liberal whites . . . . Continue Reading »
When this story was thrown through the proverbial transom, I thought it must be from The Onion. Alas, no. A student organization at Carleton University has dropped supporting cystic fibrosis charities because the disease is not diverse enough. I kid you not. From the story:The Carleton University . . . . Continue Reading »
I am a man with deep connections to the political left, for example, writing four books with Ralph Nader. But those Movement (not Nader) ties frayed and then snapped, first due to the Left’s embrace (before the disability rights movement engaged the issue) of assisted suicide, reinforced . . . . Continue Reading »
The NHS is collapsing from top to bottom. Now, we learn that its medical personnel have insufficient training in end of life care. From the story: Many terminally ill patients who want to die at home are being needlessly admitted to hospital, a public spending watchdog said on Wednesday. It said the . . . . Continue Reading »
Dreading the Thanksgiving-dinner arguments on religion and politics? Resistance is futile. Just accept the inevitable and start them yourself. Slate provides some ideas here for dinner-table disagreements on politics. As for religion, First Things has dished up some ideas sure to spark lively . . . . Continue Reading »
A maximalist, Mr. Luhrmann doesn’t simply want to rouse your laughter and tears: he wants to rouse you out of a sensory-overloaded stupor with jolts of passion and fabulous visions. That may make him sound a wee bit Brechtian, but he’s really just an old-fashioned movie man, the kind . . . . Continue Reading »
A study has predicted that HIV could be wiped out within a decade. From the story:The virus that causes AIDS could theoretically be eliminated in a decade if all people living in countries with high infection rates are regularly tested and treated, according to a new mathematical model. It is an . . . . Continue Reading »
This is my first post as a member of the Postmodern Conservative team. By way of debut, I want to raise an issue we’ve alluded to but haven’t taken on directly. That’s the status of intellectuals, especially academics, in American conservatism. As Ivan points out , many critics . . . . Continue Reading »
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