I marvel at how the supposed defenders of SCIENCE so often conflate the method with ethical and policy controversies. Case in point: A Yale law professor named Adam Cohen, writing at the Time website, is upset that Tennessee is allowing teachers to (voluntarily) teach their students . . . . Continue Reading »
John McWhorter, writing in the New York Times , defends the new, casual modes of communication: In an earlier America, then, one could hear speeches like William Jennings Bryan’s floridly oratorical, carefully written “ Cross of Gold” speech given at the Democratic National . . . . Continue Reading »
The Public Religion Research Institute and Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs recently released results of their 2012 survey of “millennials.” “Millennials” are young adults between the ages of 18 and 24. The report . . . . Continue Reading »
Carson Holloway, writing for Public Discourse, urges libertarians and conservatives to work together against what he diagnoses as their common enemy, egalitarian liberalism. Where laws are legislated in favor of progressive interests, but framed in the language of repairing oppressive injustice, . . . . Continue Reading »
Among Thorns Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing In Quest of Intellectual Community Eric Miller, Books & Culture The First Lady of Fleet Street Susan Hertog, Jewish Ideas Daily A Question Science Will Never Answer John Horgan, Scientific American Life After Television . . . . Continue Reading »
So Ross Douthat has a new book which speaks of heresy. I am glad he uses this term—heresy—and he is quite sophisticated in his understanding of the issue. Both Hegel and Kierkegaard spoke of the important role of heresy in the development of the Christian doctrine, and Douthat too seems . . . . Continue Reading »
James Lovelock, the radical environmentalist who came up with the idea that the Earth is a living organism, has poured cold water on his own previously raging global warming hysteria. From the MSNBC story:James Lovelock, the maverick scientist who became a guru to the . . . . Continue Reading »
My morning reading has settled into some habitual grooves, and for a reliably thoughtful one or two articles a day, I go to FT’s ” On the Square ,” to Public Discourse , and to The Catholic Thing , where one of the regulars is Brad Miner. Today Mr. Miner (we’ve . . . . Continue Reading »
We’re pleased to inform our online readers that William Doino will become the newest regular columnist for the First Things website. Doino is a writer on Church history, particularly issues of the twentieth century, including the papacy of Pius XII and the Second Vatican Council. He is widely . . . . Continue Reading »
IVF has always been a form of human experimentation—which costs the subject’s (the baby) parents a lot of money—since we jumped head first into the technology without fully knowing the potential consequences. And now, decades later, we are finding that people born from IVF have . . . . Continue Reading »
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