I was away and completely off the grid when President Obama made his health care pitch. But several people sent me e-mails questioning whether he pushed futile care theory as a method of cost containment and health care reform. As usual with our president, it is hard to tell exactly what he wants as . . . . Continue Reading »
Having been trained as a musician, I am more suspicious of the arts in some ways than anyon else in this discussion, including David Layman. Arts depend ultimately on artifice, and the more one knows about the details of the artifice, the more tired it becomes. Once you’ve made the white tiger . . . . Continue Reading »
Harvard Law prof, Cass Sunstein, picked by President Obama to be the “regulations czar” wants animals to be able to bring lawsuits in court. This is a very radical concept known as “animal standing.” Senator Saxby Chambliss is holding up the nomination over the issue, . . . . Continue Reading »
Back from vacation, rested, and rarin’ to go: Time for SHS to catch up!Let’s start with an important but little c0vered story: Senator Saxby Chambliss (R=GA) has put a “hold” on the nomination of Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein to be what is sometimes called the . . . . Continue Reading »
Accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and other related words do not have quite the emotive power in East Asian societies as they do for contemporary Westerns, living under the shadow of the Holocaust, years of massive immigration, and sensitivity training. The use of such words . . . . Continue Reading »
A brief remark as I hang out with my newly home-birthed son. (The goods of home birth definitely transcend all isms.) A recent portion of our pomocon/FPR critical saga has involved a fascinating exchange of allegations of stoicism and praise for certain kinds of stoicism. And it is true that . . . . Continue Reading »
You’ve seen those HSBC ads —you know the ones about perspectives? Like this one: I ran into this sign yesterday on someone’s lawn—posted in the grass like one of those lawn campaign signs—and I couldn’t help but be puzzled. So I’ve developed my own . . . . Continue Reading »
As some of our readers have noticed, Locke is a big subject around here. We don’t share a single interpretation of his philosophy (you should listen to Ivan), or of his influence on the American regime. But we agree that the positions expressed above all in the 2nd Treatise of Government . . . . Continue Reading »
The analogy of being and the living GodIn my criticisms of the Christian appropriation of the visual arts, at least one commenter invoked “the analogy of being.” The reference sent me scurrying back to Thomas Aquinas. Although no centralized text states Aquinas’ doctrine directly . . . . Continue Reading »
Laughable sign number two (see number one ) from my summer travels. . . . . Continue Reading »
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