The kaleidoscopic Stanley Fish has written a piece for the New York Times defending the substance of Rick Santorum’s recent claims about the nature of church-state relations being more fluid than strict separationists would have Americans believe. While Fish doesn’t endorse . . . . Continue Reading »
Administration Defunds ‘Snowflake’ Adoption Program Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post Eating Has Turned into Penance Kirk Leech, Spiked Review of Books Nietzsche: An American Icon? George J. Marlin, The Catholic Thing Marriage Decisions and the Importance of Judicial Reason . . . . Continue Reading »
So the “Super” results of yesterday on were on the low side of what the polls were predicting for Romney. I’m surpised, because I thought the polls were showing a Santorum collapse. Romney barely averted what would have been an energizing win for Santorum in Ohio. But even the . . . . Continue Reading »
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The promoters of the “after-birth abortion”—which has been removed from the Journal of Medical Ethics website—have issued a non-apology apology. They were just misunderstood and misrepresented don’t you know. But that dog won’t hunt so I took to . . . . Continue Reading »
Disability rights activists are indomitable opponents of legalizing assisted suicide and an essential constituency in the diverse and broad-based coalition that opposes the death agenda. Now, a new DR organization has been founded to fight against the pending Massachusetts initiative that . . . . Continue Reading »
If you are a serious Catholic, or indeed anyone who believes in religious freedom and a pluralistic society, “Big Pharma” is not on your side. It is not too much to say that it is the enemy of much that you hold dear, because these corporations can make a great deal of money when the . . . . Continue Reading »
Following in the footsteps of the 2008 Huckabee campaign , Rick Santorum has a “secret army” of homeschoolers. Well, it’s not really a secret . The real question is: how many more times can the same article be written? . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Chronicle of Higher Education , Tom Bartlett links to Peter Singer’s take to the controversy over a recent paper arguing for the ethical acceptability of infanticide. While Singer doesn’t offer anything terribly new or shocking (by his standards) in the way of moral . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on a mass less ordinary : Stipulating that many will perceive a “get off my lawn” note to that—and I know this because I have been accused of not understanding that one aspect of the mass is to aid the church in “being community”—I don’t think my . . . . Continue Reading »
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