Dear Friends, What you read on firstthings.com makes a difference. Today we face an increasingly hostile intellectual culture, one that presumes that faith undermines reason, and that religion creates conflict and hostility in society. Our goal is to demonstrate how wrong this prejudice is. We . . . . Continue Reading »
1. It looks like Romney’s win is going to be double-digit but not overwhelming. Illinois, after all, is a very suburban and not all that evangelical a state. Very low turnout. Santorum did a bit worse in every demographic category than he did in Ohio. Most notably, Romney had a significantly . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So Santorum punched himself in the face again. He is regressing. It’s like the real office he wants is Loud Guy at the End of the Bar of the United States. 2. I looked at the Illinois exit polls that were on the 6:00 PM Fox News show. My first impression was . . . . Continue Reading »
This is what it is coming to. The Ethicist feature in the NYT Magazine—highbrow Dear Abby in my book—has a new contest running in which people who eat meat have to explain why they think it is ethical. From “Tell Us Why It’s Ethical to Eat Meat:”Ethically . . . . Continue Reading »
The Metropolitan Opera put on its final production of Khovanshchina , a Russian opera performed only sporadically in the United States, this past weekend. Saturday’s performance will likely be the last time the opera is staged in this country for some time (its previous U.S. run occurred in . . . . Continue Reading »
Frank Bruni, noted New York Times theologian, is doing his best to remind the public of the lamentable fact that the Catholic Church still exists: I’ve been monitoring and occasionally writing about the church’s child sex-abuse crisis since 1992, and most of church leaders’ apologies . . . . Continue Reading »
The Brookings Institute recently launched an initiative called ConText, dedicated to promoting the study of what Benjamin Wittes, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, calls “the most important document in American history that nobody ever reads”: James Madison’s Notes of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia wonders if “good faith” can still be assumed : t is now nearly unwatchable in its partisan hackery, but there was a time when I rarely missed Hardball with Chris Matthews. From the late 1990s to the early-aughts, the program regularly brought together a diverse and . . . . Continue Reading »
The good adult stem cell successes keep on pouring in. The latest: A little girl with a defective heart is being given a better chance at life. From the Wall Street Journal story:Four-year-old Angela Irizarry was born with a single pumping chamber in her heart, a potentially lethal defect. To fix . . . . Continue Reading »
Today the invaluable Chiaroscuro Foundation has a new map out illustrating New York abortion rates by zip code over a ten year period. Greg Pfundstein explains the chilling data over at NRO: New York is one of the states with the most complete abortion license in the nation. Beyond the fact that in . . . . Continue Reading »
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