Blimey! The British Medical Journal reports on a study indicting the system of caring for eldelry people in UK hospitals. The title tells it all: “Half of English hospitals fail to meet basic standards on care for older people” (no link, BMJ . . . . Continue Reading »
George Will rightly hits Romney for being unprincipled, but that doesn’t mean Romney isn’t the best of the current field of Republican contenders (and this probably is the complete field - more is the pity.) The Ohio story is just perfect. Romney was visiting a phone . . . . Continue Reading »
Income inequality is one of those pseudo-political issues that no one really thinks is an important issue. If anyone were truly concerned about unequal distributions of income they’d be willing to do something about it. But they aren’t. I’ve never met anyone who earns $40,000 a . . . . Continue Reading »
Shannon Love reminds us that what great-great-granddad would consider utopia is what we consider modern life : Star Trek is often used as a starting point for musing about this or that utopia because everything in Star Trek seems so wonderful. Star Trek is Gene Roddenberry‘s vision of New . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , David Mills examines Occupy Wall Street’s empty anger: They make you miss Marx, these Occupy Wall Streeters. Though even the New York Times first treated them as a slightly comical affair, the major media now give them the same extensive, sober, even . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Gerson thinks so: Bachmann’s candidacy represents a digression in the quality and seriousness of evangelical political engagement. It is difficult to imagine Mike Huckabee boasting of his indifference to the health and welfare of children, whatever their background. Even Pat Robertson, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Young Christian’s Guide to Sex at Seminary Philosophical Fragments , Timothy Dalrymple What Did Jerusalem Look Like in Bible Times? Between Two Worlds , Justin Taylor Galatians, Gospel Indicatives, and Gospel Imperatives The Gospel Coalition , Thabiti Anyabwile Adoption, Having Children, . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . is even greater than usual. There’s a symposium on Catherine Zuckert’s PLATO’S PHILOSOPHERS—featuring Mary Nichols, Bob Kraynak, Arlene Saxonhouse, and others. PLUS there’s the definitive UPDATE of STRAUSSOPHOBIA, a really enjoyable article entitled “What . . . . Continue Reading »
The controversial “ Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace ” makes the international financial crisis, still unfolding around us in slow motion, the occasion for a renewed call for a “global political authority.” That, rather than its . . . . Continue Reading »
The saddest author bio for a magazine editor to encounter is one that says “So-and-so is working on a biography of X,” especially if X is the subject of the article the bio is attached to. The only way to deal with a byline like that is to smile and say, well, fella, I sure hope that . . . . Continue Reading »
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