In her new book, Sarah Palin claims that most people who teach at universities “don’t share the religious faith of their fellow Americans.” A blogger for the Chronicle of Higher Education unearths evidence that he believes proves she’s wrong. According to a . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanksgiving is America’s great feast day, and one of its to two most important national holidays—the other being Independence Day (July 4). Even though we have an international audience, I have so much for which to be thankful, that I honor our feast day here at SHS each year be . . . . Continue Reading »
Great news. During my July sojourn Down Under, my sponsors made a point of taking me to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, where I spoke in the Old Parliament Building. My allies were very worried about the prospects for the then pending euthanasia legalization bill, and my appearance was . . . . Continue Reading »
In addition to the litany of unhelpful distortions and indulgence in wishful thinking on the part of some religion opinion writers over the weekend, some of the more rigorous in their ranks have provided helpful bits of writing on the Pope’s “condom comment.” One is Dr. Janet . . . . Continue Reading »
The Animal Liberation Front likes to compare itself to Martin Luther King and Ghandi. PETA calls them the moral equivalent of the French Resistance and the Underground Railroad.Yup, those example really popped into my mind when I read that some ALF terrorists sent what they said were . . . . Continue Reading »
I was driving cross-country in the summer of 1995, at a time when the music of Hootie and the Blowfish was inescapable. My wife and I listened to the radio from Kentucky to California, and the soundtrack assigned to us by American pop music was song after song from the multiplatinum album Cracked . . . . Continue Reading »
The annual Thanksgiving messages have begun to show up around the web (for America’s Thanksgiving Day, that is). This time of year poses a bit of a problem for Christian bloggers: how to express our thankfulness without saying the same thing everyone else has already said. It is the challenge of . . . . Continue Reading »
My pal Nat Hentoff, one of the country’s most respected civil libertarians, weighs in against Donald Berwick’s desire to eliminate most doctor/patient face-to-face meetings, Paul Krugman’s assertion that we need “death panels” to control costs, and Obamacare generally, . . . . Continue Reading »
I have over the years become something of a connoisseur (if I’m permitted to use such a French word for such an American thing) of presidential Thanksgiving proclamations . My reason for an interest in a thing so potentially banal (and trust me, some of the proclamations are beyond . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s little less fashionable today than praising the Puritans, especially for their egalitarian political idealism, their promotion of genuinely humane and liberating learning, and their capacity for enjoyment and human happiness. Praising the Puritans is especially difficult for us because . . . . Continue Reading »
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