Elizabeth Scalia on Obamacares great gift : Recently we have learned that under Obamacarethat is, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Actemployer insurance plans must provide free non-medical contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization for their employees. Free is as . . . . Continue Reading »
According to Ari Schulman: Because of Percys explicit engagement with Kierkegaard, we may justifiably interpret the ending as a representation of the ethical/aesthetic choice . . . .Binx, that is, begins the novel in the aesthetic mode, but by the end, he has given up moviegoing and committed . . . . Continue Reading »
Charles Murray’s Values Inequality W. Bradford Wilcox, Wall Street Journal An Administration’s Against Civil Society Yuval Levin, National Review Catholic Colleges Consider Trustee Roles Libby A. Nelson, Inside Higher Ed Nature, Nurture, and Liberal Values Roger Scruton, Prospect . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is a (characteristically) sensible article by Bill Galston in THE NEW REPUBLIC. I quote from its postscript: This morning, Gallup released the latest in its series of polls focused on twelve swing statesColorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas B. Edsall at the New York Times speculates about the future of the religious right in light of its current public representatives, citing an Clinton-era letter in which Paul Weyrich despaired over whether or not there really was a “moral majority”: I no longer believe . . . . Continue Reading »
I say praise with the express acknowledgement that I think Rick would have had a hard time winning the Republican nomination, let alone winning a popularor even an electoral majorityagainst the current president in the general election in the first place. His case for the presidency was . . . . Continue Reading »
I thought I would point out two recent articles that articulate a problem regarding religious libertyand its expression in terms of certain communal institutions of civil societyin relation to the state (or at least a certain understanding of what the purposes of state are or ought to . . . . Continue Reading »
A chorus of conservative criticism greeted the invocation of martial virtue in his State-of-the-Union speech. Max Boot wrote that the military is not a model for the rest of society. Matthew Cantirino found Obamas conflation of military and . . . . Continue Reading »
Todays New York Times reminds us that the Jesuits havent gone entirely off the rails. Their exposé exposes the fact that Fordham has resisted compliance with a New York state law that requires insurance coverage that pays for birth control pills. Nice to know that on this . . . . Continue Reading »
BuzzFeed responds to recent ribbing of Mitt Romney with a helpful primer on “garments,” the underclothes worn by Mormons: Though it’s common in Mormon-mocking rhetoric to use some variation on “magic Mormon undies” to describe the garment ( paging Bill Maher ), . . . . Continue Reading »