Here the New York Post reports on an interesting development in my homeland: Jamaican regulators are forbidding all explicit references to sex and violence over the airwaves. The new rules from the Jamaican Broadcast Commission, announced on Saturday, ban any song or music video that depicts sexual . . . . Continue Reading »
John Tierney warns in today’s New York Times that some scientists are entering the political fray offering more political arguments and fewer well-reasoned, scientific ones. Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., a professor at the University of Colorado, argues this in a recent book, The Honest Broker . He . . . . Continue Reading »
From The Edmonton Journal comes the story of Dr. Lisa Hornberger, a renowned fetal cardiologist recruited last fall by Alberta Health Services and the University of Alberta from San Fransisco: Before Hornberger arrived, pediatric cardiologists, who specialize in children rather than fetuses, were . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Wall Street Journal , Kay Hymowitz, sees the story of Nadya Suleman, aka Octomom , as another troubling sign that fathers are loosing their foothold in society: But in all of this punditry one question goes missing: Where is Octodad? Surely Ms. Suleman’s babies have a father. Yet . . . . Continue Reading »
In a remarkable development, David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch recently wrote an op-ed in the New York Times suggesting a way to achieve “reconciliation” on the gay marriage debate that would “temporarily satisfy both sides.” This morning, Sherif Girgis and Ryan T. . . . . Continue Reading »
In his recent FT article, John DiIulio warns that after the first hundred days or so, Obama and his faith-based council “will not be able to vote “present” on faith-based initiatives.” Nor, can he expect critics “to stay quiet or be satisfied with broad or bipartisan . . . . Continue Reading »
This doesn’t come as any particular surprise, I suppose. Doug Kmiec writes in Time magazine about the pope’s recent meeting with Nancy Pelosi, and he clearly prefers the politics of the latter. Perhaps the problem is that he reads—and misreads—too much politically into the . . . . Continue Reading »
From the October 2002 edition of The Public Square: (The following report is submitted by our ubiquitous correspondent George Weigel.) Outraged commentary quickly followed Bishop Timothy M. Dolan’s June 25 remark that his first priority as the tenth Archbishop of Milwaukee would be to talk . . . . Continue Reading »
In 2004, Archbishop Timothy Dolan gave our annual Erasmus Lecture entitled “The Bishops in Council” on the history of the American Catholic episcopate, the topic of his doctoral research. Click here to read the article. . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . and now, after rubbing in the losses of their alma maters to both FT’s editor and managing editor, Ryan T. Anderson wonders why his login information mysteriously stopped working for the FT blog . . . Just kidding. If Providence played football, Ryan, it might be a different story. As . . . . Continue Reading »
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