The Sunday Times has a good editorial out opposing the legalization of assisted suicide in the UK, which is now in the midst of a big policy push seen there every few years. It is worth reading the whole thing, but I want to focus on two points that I think are especially salient. From . . . . Continue Reading »
Good news from the Supreme Court today, with a unanimous (but by no means sweeping) ruling upholding the rights of religious groups to hire and fire their ministers. Over at Bench Memos, Rick Garnett pops champagne: Sometimes the news from 1 First Street is really, really good. Today, the Supreme . . . . Continue Reading »
A happy product of Tim Tebow’s persistent success has been the production of another proof for the existence of God. St. Paul in Romans 1:20, Aquinas’ five ways, Anselm’s ‘that than which,’ and Kant’s moral argument: Tim Tebow’s proof finds itself amidst . . . . Continue Reading »
To no one’s surprise, Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire Primary, with turnout just a tick above the allegedly dispirited showing four years ago. Where’s the Republican enthusiasm advantage? Apparently not in the Granite State. We’ll have to watch turnout in the . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on converts to Catholicism and the “symphony of truth” : If there is a thread running through these diverse personalities, it may be this: that men and women of intellect, culture and accomplishment have found in Catholicism what Blessed John Paul II called the . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at CatholicCulture, Jeff Mirus discusses Andrew Chestnut’s relatively new Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, The Skeleton Saint . Mirus’ piece is simultaneously a book review and an introduction to a steadily-growing cultic practice which is both fascinating and frightening, and is . . . . Continue Reading »
Gehry’s Ghastly Eisenhower Memorial George Weigel, National Review Online European Identities & Immigration Francis Fukuyama, American Interest Why Isn’t Pork Kosher? Shmarya Rosenberg, Tablet Massachusetts Doctors Reject Physician-Assisted Suicide Adam J. MacLeod, Public Discourse . . . . Continue Reading »
In an interview with America magazine, Robert P. George offers advice to young people unsure of their careers and vocations: My first bit of advice would be to attend to your spiritual life. Develop a strong interior life, especially when we are making educational choices and . . . . Continue Reading »
Of course pomocons don’t listen to Prozac! Nor should they, but in our fascination with the vicissitudes of the presidential nomination process, might we not be asking to be put in a giant sack hanging from a tree? Learning the style of populist rhetoric may make us as (un)popular as Gingrich . . . . Continue Reading »
This 200-page history of the Oxford Union preserves undergraduate wit with enormously greater permanence than it is in undergraduate wit’s nature to be preserved. Try telling a college student that a joke he made yesterday — for example, “The honourable gentlemen have turned their . . . . Continue Reading »
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