A few days ago, I criticized a government advisory panel’s recommendation to remove PSA screening as a covered service for healthy men. It seemed to me that the recommendation missed the trees for the forest, that is, it looked too broadly at the issue, taking false positives, . . . . Continue Reading »
10 Signs You May Be a Distributist Acton PowerBlog , Kenneth Spence Faith in America: The Role of Religion in the Public Square James Madison Program , Robert P. George and Russell D. Moore Democratized Holiness: Yom Kippur And Moral Responsibility Huffington Post , Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks The . . . . Continue Reading »
chance , contingency, necessity, love, death, a therapist with cute big teeth . . . . Continue Reading »
From an interview with N.D. Wilson , author of Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl : Trevin Wax: Why is it important that we seek to communicate truth in persuasive and artistically powerful ways? Nate Wilson: It is important that we communicate well (in ways that resonate artistically as well as . . . . Continue Reading »
My suggestion is that the brilliant and undeluded Pete write up a draft (that way we’ll have a lot of facts), and then the others add to it. The whole thing should be no longer than 2000 words or so. Then we will try to change the world with it. . . . . Continue Reading »
Christopher Hitchens may be the best short form writer working today. Powerful writing and pointed advocacy—much of with which I disagree—thankfully undiminished by his fight with esophageal cancer. Indeed, the last time I wrote about Hitchens, I quoted him as wishing for the . . . . Continue Reading »
For those interested in alternative political thinking, the “Red Tory” writer Philip Blond will be speaking at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service on Friday at 4:00. To register for his talk on “The Broken Society vs. the Big Society,” click . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent Gallup survey shows that Americans are evenly divided about whether government should do what it can to promote traditional values in society. This is only the fourth time in 26 Gallup measurements of the question since 1993 that support for government’s promoting of traditional . . . . Continue Reading »
Glen Scrivener notes how much of the King James Version owes to a man who, after being condemned as a heretic, was strangled and his body burnt: Computer analysis has revealed that more than three quarters of the King James Version can be traced directly to Tyndale (83% of the NT and 76% of the OT) . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s a good bit more than I noted in my first post . Consider, for example, these posts by Tom Beaudoin , who teaches theology at Fordham University (home to some of the Jesuit mentors of my youth). Here he speculates about the religious (or more properly, perhaps, . . . . Continue Reading »
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