I knew Matthew Scully, the animal rights movement’s favorite conservative, would attack A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy. When he did, I expected him to respect readers sufficiently to disclose that I criticized (and praised) his book Dominion. He didn’t. I didn’t . . . . Continue Reading »
The Daily Telegraph reports on a breakthrough in brain science:For decades critics of modern classical music have been derided as philistines for failing to grasp the subtleties of the chaotic sounding compositions, but there may now be an explanation for why many audiences find them so . . . . Continue Reading »
According to the Washington Times , last week the Supreme Court set oral arguments for April 19 in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez , a case in which the University of California’s Hastings College of Law denied official recognition to the Christian Legal Society. The school refused to . . . . Continue Reading »
It is evidently the season for institutions of higher learning to select new presidents. We have recently heard announcements from Baylor University and Wheaton College. Now my own employer, Redeemer University College, one of a very few Christian universities in Canada, has just announced the . . . . Continue Reading »
R. R. Reno laments the civic failure of American higher education : Colleges and universities today manifest a paradoxical combination of remarkable success and abject failure. Vast resources and extensive funding for research have made our system of higher education the envy of the world—but . . . . Continue Reading »
As promised, here is another in a series of excerpts from my book criticizing the animal rights movement that I will post from time to time here at SHS. We began with the conclusion of Dean Koontz’s wonderful preface. We now turn to the book in proper.I open by describing a visit I took . . . . Continue Reading »
Global warming hysteria—which is not the same thing as the science investigating AGW—has been discredited. And now, a senator wants a criminal investigation. From the story:The Senate’s top global warming skeptic on Tuesday is calling for a possible criminal investigation . . . . Continue Reading »
Christopher Benson and Matthew Milliner have been doing the Lord’s work over at Evangel in agitating for the recovery of a non-pragmatic understanding of church architecture. Of course, they’re swimming up stream among us evangelicals: one whole wing of our happy movement doesn’t . . . . Continue Reading »
The governor wants Polycarp to deny Christ, and promises if he will, his life will be spared. But the faithful bishop answers, “For 86 years I have served Him, and He has never done me wrong; how then can I now blaspheme my King and Savior?”Born around AD 69, Saint Polycarp was a central . . . . Continue Reading »
At National Review , Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru have a valuable essay on “the Obama administration’s assault on American identity”: What do we, as American conservatives, want to conserve ? The answer is simple: the pillars of American exceptionalism. Our country has always been . . . . Continue Reading »
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