Most days I just don’t want to go there. While I disagree with my friends on the egalitarian side of the gender role debate, I think they know I respect them and their studious work on the subject. But I believe we have reached a point in the debate, at least at a popular level, where we find . . . . Continue Reading »
So it appears that Christie ain’t running. Pete started gushing (again) before his guy said yes. I even caved after imagining a classy contest among Romney, Christie, and Cain. Now it’s once again Romney, Cain, and Perry can’t be counted out. Sometimes it’s darkest before it . . . . Continue Reading »
In her latest On the Square column , Elizabeth Scalia laments the government’s attempts to reshape the notion of rights and entitlements: A big story getting barely any press outside of Catholic media is that the government is getting ready to press ahead with policies intended—note the . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friends at the Acton Institute have begun leading a worthwhile new initiative to take on the challenge of global poverty: PovertyCure is an international network of organizations and individuals seeking to ground our common battle against global poverty in a proper understanding of the human . . . . Continue Reading »
Miroslav Volf, author of the new book, Public Faith, speaks about the need to save liberalism as a way of securing an open public square where all faiths can meet and work for the common good.I am increasingly persuaded that the contemporary debate over liberalism has been hampered by the failure of . . . . Continue Reading »
Structured Homeschooling Gets an A+ ScienceDaily Homeschool Blindspots JoshHarris.com , Reb Bradley What is Jesus doing now? The Briefing , Peter Orr The Political Pulpit New York Times , Stephanie Strom Study: Modern economies ‘rise and fall’ with nuclear families Washington Times , . . . . Continue Reading »
Legalized assisted suicide costs us the presence of good people, who had they been given emotional support to help them not commit suicide in their time of health extremis, would be so glad to be alive. I have written frequently of my last hospice patient, Bob, who had been suicidal for 2 1/2 . . . . Continue Reading »
What was the nineteenth century’s worst invention? Choosing just one isn’t an easy task, but one that should be near the top of the list is . . . sexual identity. Few modern creations have wreaked as much havoc on individuals and culture as this medical concept. In a fascinating . . . . Continue Reading »
Recently the World Jewish Congress held a conference in Jerusalem at which famous Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky gave the keynote address. In it he maintained that people need both to be free and to belong. If people lack liberty it leads to tyranny. If people lack identity it leads to decadence, . . . . Continue Reading »
In his much-discussed column last month highlighting Christian Smith’s much-discussed sociology of young adults , David Brooks laments that young adherents of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism aren’t even that moral. “Morality was once revealed, inherited and shared, but now . . . . Continue Reading »
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