After Washington voters unwisely legalized assisted suicide, I said the battle wasn’t over. I reported that many hospitals and doctors had decided to refuse all participation in doctor prescribed death, and encouraged them to do so. That made assisted suicide advocates angry, but . . . . Continue Reading »
CNN’s Belief blog has some good quotes from the co-authors of the book Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture . Carson Mencken says conservative Christians tend not to think too much about UFOs and Bigfoot: The people . . . . Continue Reading »
Denier tools of Big Oil!Why we are going to . . . . Continue Reading »
American culture seems to be most interested in who God isn’t. Many hold that claims made about God put him in a box and because we really can’t know anything about him (so they say) we should avoid claiming any knowledge of or about him. Of course, that argument works for less than 10 . . . . Continue Reading »
In The Nobel Prize That Wasn’t , today’s second “On the Square” feature, our managing editor Mary Rose Somarriba explains why “why this year’s Nobel Prize for the discovery of IVF represents a failure.” Aimed at creating fertilized embryos, IVF destroys many . . . . Continue Reading »
Walker Percy: A Documentary Film will be playing at the New Orleans Film Festival on October 17th and 20th. (The site includes a short clip from the movie.) . . . . Continue Reading »
“David, your writing is always inspirational,” begins the first comment on David Hart’s The Desirist’s Unsatisfiable Desires , today’s first “On the Square” article,. The commenter is responding, I think, to Dr. Hart’s insights into the moral life, . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: Every Friday on First Thoughts we host a discussion about some aspect of popular culture. Have a suggestion for a topic? Send them to me at jcarter@firstthings.com] Some people think the internet was created for dirty pictures and political arguments. But the true reason is that people . . . . Continue Reading »
You know, I’m looking at the two most recent transfers of power in Communist countries — from Fidel to his brother Raul Castro and from Kim Jong Il to his young son — and I’m wondering how I missed the part in the Communist Manifesto where the leaders of the revolution . . . . Continue Reading »
I have read the 65-page decision by Judge Vinson in Florida that allowed the 20 State challenge against Obamacare to go forward. It’s very well reasoned and measured, in my view. The two biggest deals are: 1. The fine for not buying insurance is probably not a tax , but as the law . . . . Continue Reading »
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