The assistant editors of First Things have back-to-back book reviews in Touchstone . Last month I wrote on three books describing the hook-up culture on college campuses. The article’s now available online , and here’s a sample: One student she interviewed talks about a girl who calls . . . . Continue Reading »
After reading my post on Show of Hands, Paul Allen, who teaches theology at Concordia University in Montreal, wrote and passed along a link to a Quebec group that sings an edgy protest song — a protest against cultural suicide, that is. Check it out. . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanksgiving is a holiday devoted to the virtue of gratitude which, one could argue, finds less than hospitable ground in the modern world. The Lockean position on nature, that it furnishes only worthless materials that gain value through an imposition of labor, could not be more . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been asked to comment on the Freedom of Choice Act, that would seek to impose a single federal standard on abortion regulations. I have not done so until now because I did not know enough about the details and wanted to wait until and unless it became a likely law.I still don’t know . . . . Continue Reading »
You thought it was just another American presidential election. But Howard Adelman thinks there’s more to it than that. In an article ” Magic, Comedy, and Civic Religion ” for the Social Science Research Council’s journal, the Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
My newest “What It Means to be Human” podcast—this edition on “nature rights” in Ecuador—is up at the Discovery Institute site. Here is the . . . . Continue Reading »
Hit this link view an important video of Haleigh Poutre brushing her hair and sitting up in bed. I am not totally pleased with the narration (‘she spends most of her day in a wheelchair, but Haleigh Poutre is very much alive”), however good for the station for airing this important story . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a little good news out of Scotland. Women whose fetuses test positive for Down syndrome are increasingly rejecting abortion. From the story:More babies are being born with Down’s syndrome than before pre-natal screening for the disorder was introduced at the end of the 1980s, it . . . . Continue Reading »
Don’t read this link . I say don’t read it. The culture of blogs and research databases has been promoted as a way of democratizing the business of ideas; everyone can have a voice, and the most minority of minority positions can gain leverage. As the Boston Globe writes, “For . . . . Continue Reading »
From Fr. George Rutler’s weekly column in the bulletin of the Church of Our Saviour, this time on removing references to God in our culture: It would be easy to exploit this out of demagoguery, and some politicians do indeed like to pose righteously protesting against “the removal of . . . . Continue Reading »
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