According to a recent a recent 3-0 decision from The Appellate Division of New Jersey Superior Court, one needn’t be Jewish to sue for anti-semitic discrimination. The suit in question was brought by a certain Myron Cowher, of German-Irish and Lutheran descent, against Carson and Roberts Site . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the great puzzles about our future in heaven is, won’t we be bored? I know there will be lots of joy and love and worship. I’m not worried about heaven being bland and stale; surely God loves us more than to let that happen! It’s just that I can’t imagine how it will . . . . Continue Reading »
From the cultural avant-garde, the latest trend : parties convened by expectant couples for the sole purpose of unveiling the gender of their child-to-be to a room full of friends and family: In the case of gender-reveal parties, couples take a private moment made possible by science and oblige . . . . Continue Reading »
Simplify, Simplify Br. Gregory Maria Pine, O.P., Dominicana Karl Barth Knew His Limits Michael L. Lindvall, Christian Century Writing Disasters David Roberts, Oxford University Press Blog In Ireland, Belonging Without Believing Michael Kelly, Catholic World Report Joel Osteen: Romney a . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh brother. A woman named Faye Flam, who writes the Planet of the Apes blog for the Philadelphia Inquirer about evolution—Get it? We’re all just apes. Get it?—has written a distinctly unevolutionary blog supposedly word processed by her cat Higgs, in which the cat attacks . . . . Continue Reading »
I think that’s about the best speech that Romney can give and by far the best I’ve seenfrom Romney . He found the range on the whole “fairness” thing. It also comes across pretty authentic-seeming. You can believe that Romney believes his . . . . Continue Reading »
My Rock Songbook has slowed down of late, and there’s a reason. At Washington and Lee University, where I currently teach, we do this cool thing of having a month-long intensive class. The prof is supposed to pack this with a semester’s worth of material, and my class is an American . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Dirda of the New Criterion takes a fresh look at mid-century British poet Philip Larkin. Dirda finds much to admire in Larkin’s writing and personality, including his awareness of the growth of secularism and hedonism in the culture at large, his daring rejection of literary modernism . . . . Continue Reading »
Paul Ryan has famously (or infamously ?) claimed that the budget he proposed for the next fiscal year is a product of his encounter with Roman Catholic social teaching . The bishop who heads the USCCB committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development disagrees : As pastors and . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Misulia reviews Jesse Bering’s The Belief Instinct : Bering argues that our proto-human ancestors were unselfconsciously “impulsive, hedonistic, and uninhibited.” But sooner or later humans recognized that they were capable of and subject to judgment. In time, the reproductive . . . . Continue Reading »
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