In order to be environmentally conscious, this post most is mostly recycled from a comment I made over at No Left Turns: I’m not a Romney supporter because I think that even the “modest” kinds of entitlement reforms I favor really do represent big change and enacting even diluted . . . . Continue Reading »
John Farrel has written a piece for Forbes in which he cites the University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne : “I’ve always maintained that this piece of the Old Testament, which is easily falsified by modern genetics (modern humans descended from a group of no fewer than 10,000 . . . . Continue Reading »
To our readers: First Things is introducing a new section of our website entitled “Recent Events” , in which we recap various signature events sponsored by the magazine. This section will also feature high-quality photography of the events, in the hope that readers who cannot make it to . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh waaa!I don’t like petty blog feuds, and I am not launching one, here. But for the second time, “faculty level” stem cell scientist Paul Knoepfler has made false accusations against me, and the Internet being what it is, I have to respond to keep the record . . . . Continue Reading »
“A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,” said Solomon . Or, you know, you could just spend everything you have before you die : Carol Willison has made lots of financial sacrifices for her two children over the years, including paying most of her older . . . . Continue Reading »
Ivan Karamazov worried that if God is dead then all things are permissible. Likewise, so evangelicals have been told, if there is no magisterial authority, then all biblical interpretations are permissible. But even if this is not the case, we could still argue that “biblicism” results . . . . Continue Reading »
Members of the Columbia University International Relations Council are reportedly set to dine with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he blusters into New York next week as part of his attendance at the United Nations General Assembly. As of now, it’s unclear when or where . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , Joe Carter ponders what would happen if the the worst fears of the theophobes came true and America did become a theocracy: With the end of summer comes the official election season, the beginning of a thirteen month stretch in which the public must endure . . . . Continue Reading »
The other day at Thinking Christian I put forth the question, Can you identify the context of this passage? To have a persona [to be a person] was to have a face before the law—which is to say, to be recognized as one possessing rights and privileges before a court, or as being able to give . . . . Continue Reading »
While I was finishing my undergraduate degree in philosophy, a friend of mine majoring in biology joked that I would have no trouble finding employment—he’d checked the yellow-pages, and there was no competition for philosophers. But according to Emily Wax at the Washington Post , . . . . Continue Reading »
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