Over at Commonweal , John Schwenkler takes R.R. Reno’s side in yesterday’s debate over libertarianism: As Reno points out, the WSJ ’s blinkered focus on the role of tax policy in encouraging economic growth assumes a social policy of its own, one according to which GDP is the sole . . . . Continue Reading »
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed a Texas law to go into immediate effect that requires doctors to demonstrate that a fetus is a living being 24 hours before a termination. From the Kaiser Health News story:A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a new Texas abortion . . . . Continue Reading »
John Allen tries to knock down the assumption that today’s widespread persecution of Christians, perhaps the most pressing issue in global religious freedom, should be a matter of indifference to the American left: One thinks, for instance, of the famous martyrs of the liberation theology . . . . Continue Reading »
Philip Kitcher reviews Derek Parfit’s On What Matters in the New Republic : It stands as a grand and dedicated attempt to elaborate a fundamentally misguided perspective. Its diligence and its honesty command respect. Perhaps these real virtues will set standards for very different ventures . . . . Continue Reading »
God Matters: Ethical Theory and Divine Law Matthew O’Brien, Public Discourse Tolstoy: Saint or Crank? Brooke Allen, Review In Search of Serendipity Ian Leslie, Intelligent Life Hannah Arendt’s Destructive Legacy Sol Stern, City Journal King’s Theology of Action Robert Vischer, . . . . Continue Reading »
1. It won’t change anything. Gingrich had the crowd with him and some memorable answers, and Santorum, although tough and quirkily authentic, didn’t shine enough. Romney was rated very low on the authenticity-meter by the tweeters and Pete, but he just wasn’t bad enough. Paul won . . . . Continue Reading »
So far I’m pretty horrified. The low point was when Santorum asked Romney if Romney believed that felons who had completed their sentence should be allowed to vote. Romney froze and tried to change the subject since apparently Romney didn’t know what he was supposed to . . . . Continue Reading »
Decadence strikes a beat, into your heart it will seep—to paraphrase a rock classic. But now, that term has reached a new low in the Netherlands as two men “promoted organ donation” (???) by appearing on a television program purporting to eat tiny pieces of each . . . . Continue Reading »
R.R. Reno on the Wall Street Journal ’s libertarian blinders : I have long suspected that free-market libertarians aren’t all that different from postmodern relativists who insist that human beings have no natural end, no normative patterns for life. Some recent editorials in the Wall . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Andrew Busch makes a modest but strong defense of Santorum’s virtues. Santorum was a leader on welfare reform. He has been good on entitlement reform (probably the most important fiscal issue of the next decade) for a long time. Even the prescription drug benefit . . . . Continue Reading »
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