Donald Berwick, the late (as in former) temporary head (via recess appointment) of Medicare—the cowardly Democrats wouldn’t even hold hearings on his nomination because he supports rationing—makes the best case possible for Obamacare in the Washington Post. But it . . . . Continue Reading »
Revisiting the Anointing of the Sick: Some Problems Today Fr. Mark A. Pilon, Homiletic & Pastoral Review In the Purgatorial Emporium Bradley J. Birzer, Imaginative Conservative The Seen and Unseen in Our Social Liberation Theodore Dalrymple, Liberty Law Site Religious Liberty . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Anton’s fine essay on the Beach Boys, California culture, and the SMiLE Sessions album is now available on the Claremont Review of Books website. On the merits of SMiLE , compare and contrast his take with my Songbook essay, The SMiLE that Wasn’t . He doesn’t quite admit that . . . . Continue Reading »
The current issue of The Atlantic has an interesting article by Anne-Marie Slaughter, former Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, and most recently director of policy planning at the State Department. Her title, ” Why Women Still Can’t Have It All ” pretty much says it . . . . Continue Reading »
Dear Readers, First Things is a non-profit. For more than twenty years readers have provided donations that have sustained the journal. Now the electronic age presents new challenges. I’ve written to our subscribers, who have responded with generosity. Now I’m writing to you directly on . . . . Continue Reading »
For those of us following the crisis in Europe with any degree of intensity, it’s difficult not to sense an absence of hope among even the most sincere continental technocrats. This absence extends beyond the moralizing response to sovereign debt (which faults national “greed,” . . . . Continue Reading »
Due to the absence of West Coast Straussians and perhaps the silence of Mr. Ceaser, we’ve reached a kind of postmodern and conservative consensus that PART of progressivism—the part articulated by the Court in PLANNED PARENTHOOD v. CASEY and LAWRENCE v. TEXAS—is a kind of Lockean . . . . Continue Reading »
We hear sometimes from pro abortion types that fetuses are nothing of moral note until they are born—and sometimes not even then, e.g. personhood theory. We are sometimes told that during prenatal care, only the mothers are patients. Yet, a story just came out about life saving . . . . Continue Reading »
What was it that Cicero said? There is nothing so absurd that Peter Singer hasn’t said it? Something like that. The Princeton philosophy professor’s latest effusion offers an extraordinarily limited conception of religious freedom. Taking up controversies in the Netherlands over . . . . Continue Reading »
People will not welcome Emily Yoffe’s allegation in Slate that Fr. Robert Drinan, the congressman-priest who became the spiritual father of pro-choice Catholicism, once assaulted her: Several years earlier, my family had worked for the election of our congressman, Father Robert . . . . Continue Reading »
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