“We made the decision together but I’ve never felt so alone.” That is just one testimony from a woman suffering post-abortive pains, on the new website www.AbortionChangesYou.com . The site is not designed to offer counseling, nor to compile pro-life or pro-choice arguments and . . . . Continue Reading »
They brought it on themselves, the private health insurers. Raising rates, cherry picking, too often trying to game people. So, now with the election of Barack Obama, the LA Times announces that there is a “consensus” to legally implement some form of nationally mandated health . . . . Continue Reading »
The cold and flu season has officially begun , as many of us—myself included—know all too well. If the sniffles have you down and you’re looking for a place to direct your frustrations, a new study published in the Journal of General Virology suggests that much of the blame can be . . . . Continue Reading »
On the topic of Advent hymns and carols , here’s “The King Shall Come” by Michael Linton, a frequent FT contributor. The piece is conducted by Mary Hopper at the Wheaton Illinois Christmas Festival. . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent study concludes that roughly a fifth of college-age Americans have personality disorders. It’s hard to know what to make of this. On the one hand, you shouldn’t trust a bunch of psychiatrists to decide who needs a psychiatrist. But on the other hand, my own experience suggests . . . . Continue Reading »
This story is a charming little independent film waiting to happen: “It may seem that the winter in Siberia lasts all year round; there are very few people—so who will eat ice cream here apart from the bears? That was exactly our main advantage. Our competitors didn’t take us . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m quoting a fairly lengthy portion of our own Peter Lawler’s essay on technology because it does a tantalizing job of raising some fair but serious questions about the limits of Wendell Berry’s — or anyone else’s — dedication to nature as the site of whole . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s experiences like this that create cynics. . . . . Continue Reading »
Christmas with the Holy Fathers : It’s the title of a handsome little book just published by Paraclete Press. Edited by Peter Celano, it features a hundred pages of meditations for Advent, Christmas, the Solemnity of Mary, and the Epiphany, drawn from the writings of popes from Leo I through . . . . Continue Reading »
Our own Peter Lawler gives an account of human nature and our peculiar capacity for technologically transforming it. Considering the views of Heidegger, Wendell Berry, and Pascal he argues that while our attraction to the rational manipulation of nature is a defining hallmark of our being, the new . . . . Continue Reading »
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