HSUS doesn’t generally pitch animal rights ideology in public. It merely goes about its business of methodically seeking to dismantle animal using industries, what I have called a process of chewing from the outside in. It is an effort that they know will take decades.But make no . . . . Continue Reading »
Few people write about the intellectual core of the pro-life movement quite like Robert P. George of Princeton. He is a comely figure, whose spirit always impresses foes even as his keen intellect often shames them by exposing the flaws in their logic. When my students seem to be . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m not a big fan of purely political art, but the Pratt Institute has no problem with it—as long as it’s the right kind of politics, that is. The New Criterion’ s James Panero reports : You don’t have to be an art critic to see something tasteless going on . . . . Continue Reading »
Last Summer I noted that some people think that only solution to global warming is to “think about cooling the planet” by using geoengineering. One of the proposed geoengineering solutions was to loft between two million and ten million tons of sulfur dioxide into the lower . . . . Continue Reading »
The continuing legal and political revolt against Obamacare is remarkable. I am particularly struck by the refusal by more than half the states to cooperate with the law and/or seek to invalidate it in court. I don’t recall a federal law attacked by the states in such a concerted . . . . Continue Reading »
The conservative UK columnist Melanie Phillips, who I don’t think is pro life, (not sure about that), makes some provocative points about abortion that are worth pondering. She is appalled that UK doctors have been instructed to tell pregnant women contemplating termination that abortion . . . . Continue Reading »
A clash of Christian cultures in the Pacific Northwest is producing unexpected results : James Wellman’s fascinating Evangelical vs. Liberal: The Clash of Christian Cultures in the Pacific Northwest compares and contrasts evangelical and liberal Protestant (or mainline) churches along the . . . . Continue Reading »
Eve Tushnet wonders why marriage is the only area of contemporary politics in which tradition is used explicitly as a justification: Two things have happened to contemporary marriage which all but compel traditionalist rhetoric in a non-traditionalist culture. First, one of marriage’s core . . . . Continue Reading »
“If we were pacifists, we would have been in the wrong jobs, because I don’t think it’s advisable to have pacifists in the White House, particularly for situations like 9/11. In government, you take an oath to protect your fellow citizens and you have to take that . . . . Continue Reading »
It is well known that Nazi “doctors” engaged in horrendous medical experiments with concentration camp inmates. They thought it was fine and right to do so because they believed they were working on so-called untermenschen, that is, humans of lesser value. There is no . . . . Continue Reading »
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