The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to defund Planned Parenthood. From the story:The House has approved a Republican proposal to block federal aid for Planned Parenthood. The 240-185 vote on Friday is a victory for anti-abortion forces led by Indiana GOP Rep. Mike Pence. He says taxpayer . . . . Continue Reading »
Do pigs go to heaven?Secondhand Smokette thought this was funny—and relevant. I can’t figure out why. Perhaps a little background . . . . Continue Reading »
Good grief. A bill in South Dakota that could have made a killing to stop an abortion a justifiable homicide has been defeated. From the story:Lawmakers in the South Dakota House of Representatives voted on Thursday to delay further action on a controversial bill that supporters say would . . . . Continue Reading »
The University of California-Davis has a peculiar new religious discrimination policy : The UC-Davis policy defines “Religious/Spiritual Discrimination” as “the loss of power and privilege to those who do not practice the dominant culture’s religion. In the United States, this . . . . Continue Reading »
Abby Johnson used to be a Planned Parenthood clinic director who, having had two abortions, deeply believed in the PP mission of providing abortions and health care to women at the clinical setting. Then she watched an abortion guided by ultrasound, and saw the fetus as it was destroyed. That moment . . . . Continue Reading »
This morning On the Square Micah Watson offers commentary on a debate carried out over the past few months on the pages of Public Discourse between Hadley Arkes and Matthew O’Brien. The discourse began with O’Brien’s review of Arkes’ recently published Constitutional . . . . Continue Reading »
Continuing on the theme that the novels of Jane Austen can be used to explain just about anything , I give you this passage from Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth’s Baboon Metaphysics : In sum, monkey society is governed by the same two general rules that governed the behavior of women . . . . Continue Reading »
Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that attempts to mathematically capture behavior in strategic situations, or games, in which an individual’s success in making choices depends on the choices of others. In his new book (a draft of which is available free online ), Michael Chwe . . . . Continue Reading »
The New Yorker is notorious for it rigorous fact-checking. But I never realized the same standards were applied to poets : To a literal-minded reader, “Lust for Life,” a poem Michael Robbins published last April in The New Yorker , would have raised a few questions. Are elephants . . . . Continue Reading »
A new poll finds that even though most Americans have grown more comfortable with same-sex or unmarried couples raising children, they still view single mothers as detrimental to society : The poll asked about 2,700 people for their views on seven trends in modern relationships that are upending . . . . Continue Reading »
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