This election will almost surely materially lessen the power of global warming hysteria to move policy in the U.S. Congress. That doesn’t mean the hyperventilating will end. In fact, in the face of the coming change in the political atmosphere, environmentalist Bill McKibben . . . . Continue Reading »
A “wages of sin” or “be sure your sins will find you out” kind of story: our senior editor David Goldman writes in his lastest “Spengler” column for the Asia Times that much of the Islamic Republic [of Iran] runs on pirated software . . . . Most Iranian . . . . Continue Reading »
Despite my best efforts at proofreading, I’m constantly amazed at how many typos I let slip onto this website. Fortunately, none of them have been as embarrassing as this missing letter on a post at TBD: (Via: The Daily What ) . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The Conference at Berry (funded by the U of Chicago project on the science of virtue) is drawing near (Nov. 4-5). You can hear about Descartes, Locke, Darwin, Percy, Tom Wolfe, George Grant, Heidegger, and much more. And of course you can meet Ralph Hancock, America’s leading theologian, . . . . Continue Reading »
In a reversal of a long-term trend , young adults with college degrees are now more likely to be married than those who receive less formal education: About 62 percent of college-educated 30-year-olds were married or had been married, compared with 60 percent of those without a bachelor’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The short answer is: Pelt Israel with unguided missiles from southern Lebanon. In today’s Spengler essay at Asia Times Online, I evaluate Iran’s susceptibility to cyberwar. The Islamic Republic pirates virtually all its software and almost all of its competent software engineers have . . . . Continue Reading »
Today in “On the Square,” Elizabeth Scalia examines The Tolerance Disconnect , beginning with the high rate of abortion for children with Down Syndrome and the bullying of teenagers by their peers, and finds the rhetoric of tolerance inadequate. [T]his generation of teenagers has been . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Christian Century , Rodney Clapp has brief article on the brave and noble servicemembers who stand up against the practice of torture : Sergeant Joseph Darby is an army reservist who served as a military policeman at the Abu Ghraib prison. During his free time in Iraq, Darby shot photographs . . . . Continue Reading »
Theologian Albert Mohler has an interesting interview with influential sociologist Peter Berger: Mohler: For many years you’ve been at Boston University and your books have been so influential. I remember the Sacred Canopy as one of the earliest of your books that I read but had followed . . . . Continue Reading »
Unlike poets , critical theorists sometime need a little help from computer programs to let language write them. Hence, this nifty little tool from the University of Chicago . Now everyone can write nonsensical sentences with no graduate school required! Via: Alan Jacobs . . . . Continue Reading »
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