Now they’re even trying to domesticate 007 . MI6 is pushing a softer image in its new recruiting campaign. One recruitment officer insists that the agency is “not looking for . . . people jumping out of windows, running around disobeying orders, drinking dry martinis, clutching women, . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, the Scripture readings I heard in church—no doubt the same readings preached to countless other Christians across the country—reminded that Christ is king, that he will return at the end of time to restore his kingdom. That, although he humbly entered Jerusalem on a donkey and . . . . Continue Reading »
About 6 or 7 years go, I gave a lecture at Princeton University about bioethics. This was just after Peter Singer received his tenured chair at Princeton and the appointment was still a matter of heated controversy. As a planned part of the lecture, I discussed Princeton’s then newest . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the perks of being friends with a world famous author is that you get to read advance copies of his books. Last month, I had that great pleasure with Dean Koontz’s newest novel, Your Heart Belongs to Me.I knew going in that the story is about a man who needs a heart transplant. It is . . . . Continue Reading »
“The scientists” are whining—are these people never satisfied?—again! This time it is about their inability to buy human eggs, a “problem” they complain is impeding human cloning.A story in the San Diego Union Tribune, carries the scientists’ complaint. . . . . Continue Reading »
Augustinian Christianity is clearly the foundation of what became the medieval and modern liberal traditions—the traditions that separated the person or the individual from all the monistic pretensions of either the (natural) philosopher or the city. As the civic religionist Rousseau . . . . Continue Reading »
The peculiar modern obsession with celebrity voyeurism is typically unattractive but often instructive: one can argue that our preoccupation with fame signifies the persistant recognition of Aristotle’s magnanimity, albeit in a deformed version, against the regnant leveling tendencies of . . . . Continue Reading »
German historians are compiling the names of the people with developmental disabilities murdered (in addition to tens of thousands of people with physical disabilities) in the German Euthanasia Holocaust circa 1939-1945. From the story: German historians have started compiling a central register of . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers of SHS may recall the Lauren Richardson situation: Lauren experience a catastrophic brain injury and was diagnosed as in a persistent vegetative state. Her mother wanted to remove her tube sustenance and her father resisted. Litigation ensued. At the 11th hour, Lauren’s parents have . . . . Continue Reading »
If memory serves I was sitting in sociology class, just after lunch, on this day forty-four years ago, when the loud speaker at the front of the class crackled. I leaned forward to the girl sitting in front of me, Patty Brennan, and whispered, "They’ve shot the president!" She . . . . Continue Reading »
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