Animal right activists get very exorcised over labs testing various cosmetic products on animals. But for all their protesting, safety must be proved before marketing, and that generally means using animals in order to prove that the product or its ingredient are fit for human . . . . Continue Reading »
The organizers of the upcoming secularist Reason Rally have placed themselves in a pickle. It will be interesting to see how this plays out for these who portray themselves as the defenders of reason and science. Every scientist knows it’s unprofessional to draw conclusions from a . . . . Continue Reading »
Allysia Finley writes in the Wall Street Journal with some modest proposals for further healthcare mandates to supplement the concern for the nation’s well-being already on display in the contraception rule. Since the criteria for whether an employer or insurer should be required to provide a . . . . Continue Reading »
I discuss the thinking behind the assertion of a right to contraception in a post for the Georgia Family Council site. My argument in a nutshell: many of the people who argue for such a right don’t simply mean a right to be free from others’ interference; they mean subsidized . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Cantirino on Mark Levin’s baffling Ameritopia : Ameritopia , a work of pop-political theory by talk radio host Mark Levin, has been riding high atop the New York Times bestseller list for the past several weeks. The book, as Andrew McCarthy recounts in an extended essay/review . . . . Continue Reading »
A profile of our editor R.R. Reno has just been posted on the site of the Christian Union, an organization that seeks to bring the light of the gospel to students attending Ivy League schools. Both the profile and the organization are worth a look . . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend Mark Barrett writes that some friends invited him to meet them at the casino in Pittsburgh, “and the entire time I’m there I’m thinking about Charles Murray and the state of working class America. Then of course I’m thinking how weird I am for thinking . . . . Continue Reading »
Constitutional rights should not depend on the popularity of the liberty’s support, but it is good to know that solid majorities oppose the authoritarian order by the Obama Administration forcing Catholic and other objecting organizations to have contraception, . . . . Continue Reading »
David and Amber Lapp, research associates at the Institute for American Values, have written a provoking piece for Public Discourse that dismantles popular myths about successful cohabitation and fragmented family life entitled ” What Marriage Means in Today’s ‘New Normal’ . . . . Continue Reading »
In his review of Charles Murray’s new book, Yuval Levin offers this as one of the reasons why Fishtown has fallen so far behind Belmont: [T]he cultural disaster Murray describes seems to be a failing of America’s moral (and therefore largely its religious) institutions. And although he . . . . Continue Reading »
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