This is the strategy: We have to have a “conversation” about euthanasia. Commissions are appointed. If it comes to the conclusion that assisted suicide or euthanasia should not be legalized, we have to continue the conversation. Another commission might be appointed. Repeat, as . . . . Continue Reading »
Yes, and it runs deeper than outside observers imagine. Or so says Rachel Levy, who in an article at Slate offers reflections on the state of French public life and whether it’s possible to be both a committed believer and a committed patriot in that country (she has Jews in mind, given . . . . Continue Reading »
North American denominationalism seems to owe much to John Locke’s definition of church in his Letter Concerning Toleration:A church, then, I take to be a voluntary society of men, joining themselves together of their own accord in order to the public worshipping of God in such manner as they . . . . Continue Reading »
David P. Goldman offers some wise advice to Mitt Romney at his blog: For social, macroeconomic, and national security reasons, America has to revive manufacturing. And Rick Santorum is right to emphasize it. I would like to hear Santorum talk less about contraception and more about the . . . . Continue Reading »
What Atheist Groups Learned from the Christian Coalition Herb Silverman, Washington Post OnFaith The Cold Brutality of the Hunger Games Neda Ulaby, NPR Is Chomsky’s Reign over Linguistics Ending? Tom Bartlett , Chronicle of Higher Education In Defense of Cardinal Wuerl Ed Peters, . . . . 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 »
Over at Prosblogion, Helen De Cruz gives an engaging analysis of one of scripture’s most invoked grounds for conviction, testimony: “Undefeated testimony: the kind that occurs in the absence of at least the following common and probably most characteristic defeaters: (1) internal . . . . Continue Reading »
The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University recently hosted a panel discussion on how religious liberty figures into the Arab Spring, featuring an array of experts, including a representative from the Pew Forum, a former Bush Administration counsel, and . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . at least for the foreseeable future, and at least in most national races. Obama’s Department of Labor is in the process of banning farm children (including teens) from working on their families’ farms . They are set to implement a pages upon pages of family-farm regulations, . . . . Continue Reading »
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