So you all know that you need to read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. But hey, that’s a 600-page book! Well, here’s the chapters you just cannot skip. I helped out a colleague with this recently, and I may as well pass the info onto y’all. From volume one part one . . . . Continue Reading »
The AMA News has an article out about how Obamacare is looking increasingly to bust the bank. It gets into the supposed need to restrict access to treatments based on ”evidence based” medicine, the propriety of which, it seems to me, depends on how that term is defined in the . . . . Continue Reading »
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia plans to open an “interreligious and intercultural dialogue center” in Vienna, Austria, it was reported this past week. The plan immediately met with a cool response from some prominent Jews and Catholics, whose respective faiths are virtually . . . . Continue Reading »
Be afraid. Be very . . . . Continue Reading »
A new study published in the Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy shows that the more materialistic a marriage, the less happy they’re likely to be—even if both spouses put a priority on money and material goods. From the abstract: Previous research has shown that spousal . . . . Continue Reading »
The emotional commitment in some intellectual quarters to human UNexceptionalism continues to alarm me. As does the belief that scientific findings have reduced us to mere meat. We are far more than that.Part of it may involve a disdain for religion in some quarters that conflates HE . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square feature, Fr. Val J. Peter wonders whether it’s time to shut down the Campaign for Human Development In dioceses across America, bishops send out lists of collections that are to be taken up in individual parishes throughout the year. Some are local, but many are . . . . Continue Reading »
Written, of course, by ME . . . . . Continue Reading »
Emotional self-preservation will cause a lot of divorced (or soon to be divorced) parents to disagree with economist Bryan Caplan’s ” Rotten Spouse Theorem .” But I think an honest assessment of the evidence establishes it as all but irrefutable: Even after a bitter divorce, . . . . Continue Reading »
For the past few years, one of the highlights of my Fall has been the Love and Fidelity Network’s annual conference on “Sexuality, Integrity, and the University” at Princeton University. The two-day event, taking place this year November 4-5, provides college students and recent . . . . Continue Reading »
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