Good for UC Davis. It has punished two medical professors for conducting unethical medical experiments on brain cancer patients. From the Associated Press story: Two University of California, Davis, neurosurgeons have been banned from performing medical research on humans after they . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking of nuns, Amy Koehlinger’s recent essay at Religion & Politics makes an unfortunate (perhaps unintentional?) suggestion that the church, and American sisters in particular, only became concerned with the poorest and most marginal post-Vatican II. That can’t be. St. . . . . Continue Reading »
Worth remembering: Few of the outraged critiques of the Vatican’s investigation of progressive nuns mentioned the fact that Rome had intervened because otherwise the orders in question were likely to disappear in a generation. Fewer still noted the consequences of this eclipse: Because . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s the ultimate highly literate American Exceptionalism blog, which is and is going to be a lot of help to anyone teaching American politics (including me). . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Isn’t the problem with the Penn State mega-penalty that the horribly monstrous violation didn’t involve any football players or Penn State students? 2. Is Crabby Ceaser walking backwards in the mode of his new favorite species toward Porcherism? 3. One reason I’ve haven’t . . . . Continue Reading »
Sebastian White, O.P., on divine judgement : Has Ted Kennedy been canonized? “I knew that when he left us he would go to heaven and help pass the bill,” Nancy Pelosi recently assured proclaimed, going on to assure us, “And now he can rest in peace. His dream for America’s . . . . Continue Reading »
“The discussion of socialist and Marxist attitudes to antisemitism . . . has often been confused by the erroneous and illogical assumption that left-wing parties are immunized against racial, religious, or ethnic prejudice.” So says Robert Wistrich in his latest book, From . . . . Continue Reading »
Nat Hentoff is a celebrated individual libertarian and had a storied career as a columnist at the Village Voice—hardly a precursor to the Weekly Standard. He has a good column out warning about the cost of Obamacare to the individual. First, he notes the rarely-discussed tax on medical . . . . Continue Reading »
Sense in the City Br. John Maria Devaney, O.P., Dominicana Evil Answered at the Cross R. Albert Mohler, Baptist Press Matt Swinton’s Declaration of Independence Beth Grisoli, Notre Dame Magazine The Polish View of the 2012 Election George Weigel, National Review Conceding a Point is Not a . . . . Continue Reading »
In The Chronicle of Higher Education , Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith defends Mark Regnerus’s research on gay couples and child-rearing against what Smith calls a progressive “witch hunt”: Whoever said inquisitions and witch hunts were things of the past? . . . . Continue Reading »
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