Australia has feral camel problem. Not being marsupials, they are of course, not indigenous to the continent. Australia also has a bad case of global warming hysteria within the political leadership class. (To get elected, PM Julia Gillard promised not to enact a cap and trade law, and then openly . . . . Continue Reading »
CNN’s Beliefnet blog looks at some of the misconceptions people have about what is in the Bible : The Bible may be the most revered book in America, but it’s also one of the most misquoted. Politicians, motivational speakers, coaches - all types of people - quote passages that actually . . . . Continue Reading »
After Jack Kevorkian died, I was asked by several publications to reflect on his death. I did so in The Corner previously, and now I have two pieces out today bringing different angles to the same story. First from the National Catholic Register:We should not speak ill of the dead, we . . . . Continue Reading »
No respectable public advocacy campaign should tolerate anti-Semitism in its name. But the anti circumcision movement allowed one of its prime leaders—Matthew Hess—to engage in the most rank bigotry with his Mohel Monster character in the “Foreskin Man” comic book . . . . Continue Reading »
Are we on the brink of an ecological “Great Disruption”? Paul Gilding thinks so, reports Thomas Friedman.Gilding cites the work of the Global Footprint Network, an alliance of scientists, which calculates how many “planet Earths” we need to sustain our current growth rates. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Venice Biennale - the World Cup of art - just awarded top prize to Germany, the Leone d’Oro for Best National Participation, because of a church . The winning entry, built by the recently deceased artist Christoph Schlingensief, is an impressive pseudo-chapel lined with the artist’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Despite the fact that I once taught a course (one credit, for freshmen) on love, sex, and politics from Aristophanes to Bill Clinton, I wasn’t going to say anything about Anthony Weiner’s peccadillos. But Laurie Essig knows how to push my buttons. I’ll restrict myself to two . . . . Continue Reading »
In the wake of the Anthony Weiner scandal, the Washington Post’s calls attention to the modern phenomenon of the ‘e-fair.’ This is nothing new, of course, as social media sites like Facebook have been reported in divorce cases as contributing to the end of marriages. Yet the WaPo . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter’s column today explores the unsettling extent to which Ayn Rand, the ill-chosen hero of some conservatives and libertarians, finds a twin in Anton LaVey, the founder of modern satanism : Perhaps most are unaware of the connection, though LaVey wasn’t shy about admitting . . . . Continue Reading »
Generally speaking, contemporary fiction for teens is much more readable than the literary dreck that is pushed on adults. But the young adult (YA) genre is also, as a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed notes, rife with explicit abuse, violence and depravity. Although this should be obvious to anyone . . . . Continue Reading »
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