Amish Already Exempt from Healthcare Law Sr. Mary Ann Walsh, USCCBlog British Conservatives Press Ahead with Gay Marriage Michael Holden, Reuters Why Finish Books? Tim Parks, NY Review of Books Bill Maher’s Fatwa William McGurn, Wall Street Journal When Should . . . . 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 I gave a lecture on the problems of liberalism to the law school of Benito Jaurez in Oaxaca. Here is a school that reads Rawls and even has a professor who has written a book length account in Spanish of Rawls. They are good academics, but they are not persuaded by Rawls’ truth When I heard . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Gerson has published an astute analysis of the current controversy south of the border over religious freedom: Catholics, contraceptives and John Locke. An excerpt:One tradition of religious liberty contends that freedom of conscience is protected and advanced by the autonomy of religious . . . . Continue Reading »
I have often thought that transhumanism and global warming hysteria were a natural couple. The former blames humans for killing the planet, and the latter believes we can redesign ourselves to achieve eugenic ends. I have joked that transhumanist GWHs should want us to shrink all our . . . . Continue Reading »
I recently read Geoffrey Kabaservice’s lament for the eclipse of old-line Republicanism, Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party from Eisenhower to the Tea Party (Oxford University Press, 2012). It’s a flawed book in . . . . Continue Reading »
Yossi Melman, writing for Tablet , filed a bleak report following the latest round of fire between Israel and its Gazan neighbors: After four days of rocket shelling and air raids—which began last Friday when Israeli forces assassinated the secretary general of the Popular Resistance . . . . Continue Reading »
In all the screaming about “after-birth abortion,” another radical bioethics paper was published in the journal Bioethics. Rather than the benefit of doubt going to life in cases of diagnosed persistent unconsciousness, the author—a medical resident who received bioethics training . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell E. Saltzman on a strident strength : In Paul’s eschatology, Christians living at the Lord’s return will be swept up in Christ and the dead in fact will be the first to participate in the grand trumpet-call summons to resurrection. “Console one another,” Paul laconically . . . . Continue Reading »
Are justice and love contradictory concepts, or is the divide between them something of a false construct? Certainly both secular and Christian thinkers can be found who seek to emphasize one at the expense of the other, either demanding “justice” regardless of the means or the cost, or . . . . Continue Reading »
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