The 76th General Convention of the Episcopal Church is well underway now in Anaheim, California, and has been for about a week. Some observers have seen fit to note that Anaheim is also the home of Disneyland, and of EPCOT center, Walt Disney’s own personal “Experimental Prototype . . . . Continue Reading »
Did it start with Jane Goodall? The enterprising anthropologist didn’t just report her amazingly detailed observations of chimpanzees. She pursued an ideology by giving the chimps internal lives and thoughts in her writing in order to make them seem more human.Now, that approach is all the . . . . Continue Reading »
You just knew “the lawyers” would jump right on the animals-being-allowed-to-sue bandwagon.HT: A comment on a crudely named blog quoting my Weekly Standard piece on plant rights, The “Silent Scream of the Asparagus,” rather than the current article discussing Obama appointee . . . . Continue Reading »
Really it’s a travel diary, and I’d forgotten all about it. In the summer of 1993, expecting our first child, my husband and I spent three weeks in France and Germany. Our aim I suppose was to prove to ourselves that having children wasn’t going to tie us down. We’d been . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing in Newsweek July 9 Kathleen Kennedy Townsend argues that “Barack Obama represents American Catholic better than the pope does.” Of course, the pope is only the Bishop of Rome, whereas Obama is . . . . Continue Reading »
David Brooks’ recent column, called “In Search of Dignity,” is of pomocon interest. Just as Brooks tends to view genius as the practical result of expeditiously logging big hours of disciplined rehearsal, he sees the survival of dignity as dependent upon the persistence of a . . . . Continue Reading »
Entitled ” Capitalism with a Conscience ,” it appeared on July 10 in the Times of London online. . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote previously here at SHS of my disgust with the book Larry’s Kidney—which of course wasn’t Larry’s at all, but that of a Chinese political, criminal, or Falun Gong prisoner—who was killed for the lucre that the book’s author, Daniel Asa Rose. paid to obtain . . . . Continue Reading »
John Henry Newman on Catholic universities: Here, then, I conceive, is the object of the Holy See and the Catholic Church in setting up Universities; it is to reunite things which were in the beginning joined together by God, and have been put asunder by man. Some persons will say that I am . . . . Continue Reading »
Reading Alexander Waugh on Christopher Buckley , I thought about the strangely immoral project of weighing our parents—a thought I’ve had before : Every memoir of childhood is necessarily overshadowed by parents, and I could find, were I to turn my mind that way, stories of my . . . . Continue Reading »
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