Speaking of the effects of philosophy , I don’t suppose it’s possible not to note The Onion today: The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke . . . . “Though raising interest rates is unlikely at the . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the question asked by homosexual activist Jason Kuznicki as he discussed the “Is There a Place for Gay People in Conservatism and Conservative Politics?” forum. His discussion points to some interesting issues that might be useful to us as the issue is not one which will . . . . Continue Reading »
I was shocked and amazed to read Charlotte Allen’s long cover story for the February 15 edition of the Weekly Standard , entitled “The New Dating Game.” It is an exploration of the sexual mores of contemporary American society, either as they actually exist or as they are being . . . . Continue Reading »
Since my family is filled with NASA wogs, I keep half an eye peeled for news from the space program. This week the big news was the installation of an observation window on the International Space Station. This seven-paned, chunky bubble will allow astronauts an amazing view of the cosmos when . . . . Continue Reading »
The pews of St. Vincent de Paul Parish were, to no one’s surprise, packed today at the noon Ash Wednesday service. This beautiful (if somewhat rundown) gem of a church, with its towering Corinthian columns and Tiffany stained-glass windows, sits on Manhattan’s West Twenty-Third Street, in . . . . Continue Reading »
So much for caring exclusively about alleviating the suffering of ill and disabled people. Geron’s head has admitted playing politics with the timing of its request to conduct the world’s first human embryonic stem cell trials on its ESC-based product to be tried on people with acute . . . . Continue Reading »
Expanding on Jody’s thought , there are four issues that are raised by Prof. Wisse’s comments: Prof. Wisse surely has a case that Yiddish deserves academic study, but whether the most important expressions of Jewish writers appeared in Yiddish rather than German, or for that matter Hebrew, is . . . . Continue Reading »
One loves the work of Ruth Wisse and honors her for her long labors in trying to maintain scholarly seriousness in an American academy that, during her lifetime, seemed in many ways to have turned against itself. In a new essay on the decline of the language, however, she makes the case for the . . . . Continue Reading »
What word best describes NYT columnist Thomas Friedman: Fatuous? Yea, that works.In the face of the collapse of credibility for the global warming crisis hysteria—not the same thing as whether we are in a warming trend or whether humans have some impact on climate—Friedman assumes that . . . . Continue Reading »
For the record, one of the reasons I’m a fanboy of apologetics is that I am a former atheist and former Roman Catholic – and, of course, I like a good argument. I like it when ideas clash and people have to engage in something other than a passive way to get to the resolution – . . . . Continue Reading »
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