How refreshing. The media so often focus on doctor-prescribed death advocates and social outlaws like Kevorkian, that people who do really good, compassionate, and important work with people who are dying rarely receive their due. That is why I am very happy to see a front page SF . . . . Continue Reading »
Rock intellectualizing’s third basic flaw is its captivity to bohemian/New Left assumptions regarding morals, culture, and politics. The Songbook will examine rock’s largely uncritical promotion of the sexual revolution as it unfolds, but here we consider the oddity of its leftism. On one . . . . Continue Reading »
Shannen Coffin and Rich Lowry argue that Romney would look desperate and inauthentic if he were to attack Perry now. He would also open himself up to some devastating counterpunches. All true, but Romney is in a tough situation (or as tough as it could be in August.) I think . . . . Continue Reading »
“We’re all contradictory. We all have the potential for great good and the potential for great sin — that’s the human condition.”Gayle recently spoke with Father John Bartunek, a priest in the order of the Legion of Christ, a religious congregation. Father . . . . Continue Reading »
The pacifists’ choice of ‘America the Beautiful’ over the National Anthem is causing controversy on a Mennonite campus : The Star-Spangled Banner may yet wave over Goshen College in Indiana, but no one’s going to be singing about it. The Mennonite campus is dropping the . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent survey claims that American women are rapidly falling away from religion. But is that really true? Rodney Stark and Byron Johnson explain why the decline is implausible —and why you should be skeptical of reporting on surveys about religion: The national news media yawned over the . . . . Continue Reading »
Increasingly the medical intelligentsia are pushing a dual mandate on physicians in the name of cutting costs—one to patients and one to society—and when they conflict, many want the individual’s needs to be subsumed to the collective. This attempt to redefine medical . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent report by the Pew Research Center finds that, on average, fathers are either spending more time with their kids or rarely seeing them at all: In 1965, married fathers with children under age 18 living in their household spent an average of 2.6 hours per week caring for those children. . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , Peter J. Leithart reviews Christian Smith’s new book The Bible Made Impossible : “Biblicist” is a fighting word. It’s what Catholics call “bibliolatrous” Protestants, what liberal Protestants used to call Fundamentalists, and what . . . . Continue Reading »
David Brooks on how Romney might attack Perry. I’m not convinced, but I can’t think of anything better. . . . . Continue Reading »
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