Patrick Deneen on the science of politics and the conquest of nature : For the ancients, man was bound by but not wholly defined as part of nature. The studies of natural phenomena and human affairs had to be distinct disciplines, for all of the reasons that nature and man are distinct in kind. On . . . . Continue Reading »
Dads are Doing More, But Moms are More Stressed, Study Finds Los Angeles Times , Melissa Healy Study: 40% of Kids Who Attempt Suicide First Try in Elementary or Middle School Time , Bonnie Rochman Evangelist Billy Graham Hospitalized CNN Pennsylvania: Clinic Workers Plead Guilty To Murders . . . . Continue Reading »
“First World problems” is a term recently popularized on the Internet to designate the frustrations and complaints that are only experienced by privileged individuals in wealthy countries. A prime example is the bizarre reaction to Siri , the new iPhone’s intelligent personal . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s ME on courage. Sean Trende and Jay Cost, who did a nice job debating at Berry tonight, both agreed that Newt is a ridiculous candidate. I don’t think they had a good response, though, to the pathology of the present presidential race for the Republican nomination: The party has . . . . Continue Reading »
Gingrich is polling at 50% in Florida. He is more than doubling Romney’s support in the Rasmussen poll. Peter asks below if there is enough time to stop Gingrich. If we were talking on Christmas Day, I’d say no. But it is December 1st and I’ll be very, very . . . . Continue Reading »
It didn’t become a hit, but this version does contain one of the band’s better guitar solos, and what matters more for our purposes, anti-oligarchic lyrics. (Read my long post below to see what I mean by oligarchic.) Here’s how it starts: You keep sayin’ no to her, Ever since . . . . Continue Reading »
Professor Banzhaf’s charges of sex-discrimination against Catholic University’s re-introducing of single-sex dormitories has been dismissed. The District of Columbia Government Office of Human Rights did away with the charges on the grounds that doing otherwise would lead to “absurd . . . . Continue Reading »
A new survey reveals that academic psychologists are (self-admittedly) dishonest : Averaging across the psychologists’ reports of their own and others’ behaviour, the alarming results suggest that one in ten psychologists has falsified research data, while the majority has: selectively . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . . To explain , with his big brain, why the hybrid model of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac works so well in making mortgages so readily available to some many Americans. I heart Ron Paul for going after Newt too. It may be too little, too late, though. . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square feature, Christopher White explains how the Catholic Church’s helps prevent the spread of AIDS : To a large extent, World AIDS Day has become a kind of World Condom Day. For many, it’s still hard to forget the images of the large obelisk in the center of . . . . Continue Reading »
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