The UK’s health system continues its implosion. We have already seen the stories exposing the poor care the elderly receive in England. And now, the Scottish Nurses Association has charged that the elderly aren’t safe in Scottish hospitals. From the Scotsman story:OLDER . . . . Continue Reading »
A new weblog for those who want to keep up with events at the U.N., events with which anyone concerned for the world has, alas, to keep up: Turtle Bay and Beyond , published by the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, C-Fam . As the “About” note says: Turtle Bay and . . . . Continue Reading »
Rod Dreher recently asked , “Who was it that said you can always tell what’s most important to a society by the use to which they put their tallest buildings?” I don’t know who it was, but he didn’t live in New York. Rod’s observation may hold in small towns or . . . . Continue Reading »
Lawrence M. Mead at Public Discourse offers another take on the legacy of James Q. Wilson, focusing on his unfashionable heterodoxy within in the academy: much of Jim’s work was based on no direct data gathering at all. Rather, he interpreted the research of others. He integrated vast bodies . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s one interpretation of the Stones’ WAITING ON A FRIEND (which I’ve always loved too) I found surfing: This is a rare mature reflection from The Stones, as Mick Jagger sings about the values of friendship as opposed to women. Then again, it might be about drugs. Keith . . . . Continue Reading »
Rick Santorum’s Evangelical Appeal Matthew J. Franck, Washington Post Jewish School Shooting: Outlier or Trend? Heather Horn, The Atlantic The War on Men Kathryn Jean Lopez , National Review ‘Reds’ and ‘Blues’ on Cohabitation and Marriage Mark Regnerus, . . . . Continue Reading »
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 »
So perhaps you were like me and always wished you were in a really cool rock band. I kid about this, but only mildly. Regardless, the rock band turned out not to be the case anyway. And good for you and me that any jackass like me and my friends who wished to make simple music did not go that route . . . . Continue Reading »
was the title of a slim volume published by the Daily Princetonian in 1965. The guide provided phone numbers, campus rules and curfews, and directions to seventeen women’s colleges on the East Coast along with evaluations (some more charitable than others) of the young scholars at each of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking of religious rallies, this Friday (March 23rd) will see nationwide protests outside federal office buildings by people of faith opposed to the HHS mandate: The Nationwide Rally for Religious Freedom is set to take place on Friday, March 23, in more than 100 cities across the country. From . . . . Continue Reading »
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