The School of Rock was just a feel-good comedy about Rock and 6th-graders, given life by Jack Black’s performance, right? At first glance, yes. But the script was onto the fact that by the late-90s, rock felt played out, tiresomely/predictably decadent. And that in a reaction to general . . . . Continue Reading »
Meghan Grizzle on where we go after Rio+20 : On June 20-22, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference, known as Rio+20, signified the end of months of negotiations at the UN in New York and then a hectic week of negotiations in Rio . . . . Continue Reading »
Today is my country’s birthday. I celebrate humbly, knowing I have no merit in having been born in such an astonishingly free and prosperous nation, for which I have never shed a drop of blood.But the Declaration isn’t “ours.” It is universal. . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the advice that Allison Benedikt of XX, Slate’s feminst blog, offers to women who find sex-selective abortion unpalatable: No matter how many ultrasound pics get posted to Facebook, these are fetuses with female genitals or male genitals—not little girls . . . . Continue Reading »
James R. Rogers on collective action and the Declaration : As much as they objected to violations of individual liberty, the colonists objected to the King’s preventing them from exercising a collective liberty–to be governed by laws established by their own consent through . . . . Continue Reading »
Doctors are being pulled every which way but loose. On one hand, patients want optimal care. On the other, they are told by the Medical Establishment they must cut costs. Some advocate that they become killers of seriously ill or disabled patients who want to die—perhaps even the . . . . Continue Reading »
Fortnight for Freedom: Whose Religious Liberty? Jessica Coblentz, Religion & Politics Religion, Brain, and Behavior Michael Neilson, PsyRel A Reply to Steve Fuller Edward Feser, Edward Feser Swimming the Trinity Geoconger, GetReligion Mother Mary Assumpta on Obamacare . . . . Continue Reading »
In a previous post , I stressed the importance of standing up for the religious freedom of people of every faith, not just those who share our own convictions. In view of a recent development in Germany, I here wish to say that Christians, especially those of us who are Catholics, should be . . . . Continue Reading »
So I agree with both James Ceaser and Peter Lawler. Dr. Ceaser is right that the question of whether the mandate is constitutional has not at all been settled by the Supreme Court. You have four Justices who think that the Obamacare scheme of mandate and penalty is . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
