In my OTS column last week, I criticized conservatism’s unquestioned allegiance to federalism , saying that we should be for more checks and balances and limits on government, rather than a mere shifting of power from federal to state authorities. Several of my conservative buddies whose . . . . Continue Reading »
So ever since First Things posted the May issue online and the commenters (commentators?) got busy, David Bentley Hart’s uproarious takedown of Ayn Rand has led in the generation-of-comments category. For days on end I despaired of my article ” Religion, Reason, and Same-Sex . . . . Continue Reading »
The National Catholic Register notes that traditional-marriage advocates say social scientists won’t report how divorce, single parenting, and step-parenting hurt children: Social scientists are concealing the harm that divorce, single parenting and stepfamilies do to children. Not only that, . . . . Continue Reading »
The new Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board-approved advance medical . . . . Continue Reading »
Vermont is San Francisco as a state, and thus it always bears watching when its part time legislature is in session. First, as I predicted, Vermont did not legalize assisted suicide. That’s good.Second, it did establish a publicly funded health system. From the Boston Globe . . . . Continue Reading »
Although college students in America have been majoring in secularism for decades, a college in California is the first to offer an official major in secular studies : Colleges and universities have long offered majors in religion or theology. But with more and more people now saying they have no . . . . Continue Reading »
As Congress moves to consider renewal of the main federal education law this summer, the administration has been working behind the scenes to incorporate language that would give the U.S. Department of Education centralized control over K-12 curriculum across the country , including a national test . . . . Continue Reading »
Christopher Hitchens may be the greatest living English-writing writer, at least in the short form. I envy his raw prose power and find him compelling, even when I disagree vigorously with, or am cut by, his views. (We’ve had two previous discussions around Hitchens at SHS, the first, . . . . Continue Reading »
In what is sure to be a blow to the anti-relativity-theory folks *, NASA recently ran an experiment designed to test Einstein’s general theory of relativity —specifically the “mass distorts spacetime” part: Einstein was right again. There is a space-time vortex around Earth, . . . . Continue Reading »
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