The highly successful Atlanta-based restaurant chain Chick-fil-A has been much in the news these days, because president and chief operating officer Dan Cathy (whose father founded the family-owned business) apparently came out in opposition to same-sex marriage. Or did he? Terry Mattingly of . . . . Continue Reading »
More impressive—and far more courageous—than any of the predictable, crass attempts at politicizing the Colorado shooting (a project now being joined , unfortunately, by some religious voices), is this rather remarkable act : Colorado Community Church will host [church . . . . Continue Reading »
R.R. Reno’s recommended summer reading list : New York isn’t quite as extreme as Paris, but the city gets noticeably emptier at the end of July and into August. It’s almost quiet and peaceful. OK, not almost, but certainly less crowded and frenetic. And therefore friendlier to the . . . . Continue Reading »
One of my rock-ribbed beliefs is that we are to learn from academic pursuits, not merely about them. Since I teach literature, I tell my students that we are to learn from our stories and apply those lessons to their lives. Because college-educated persons have the responsibility and the . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan Salam wondered how Luis Zingales’s proposals for a “pro-market populist” politics that defends “defends freedom of entry in all cases” translates into policy proposals. As I said yesterday , a major political problem with any “pro-market . . . . Continue Reading »
A lesbian woman wants to become pregnant through artificial insemination using sperm from a friend. The FDA says no. From the San Francisco Chronicle story:She is dating a woman. She is trying to conceive a child. She wants to use free sperm from a man she trusts. But the U.S. Food and Drug . . . . Continue Reading »
Victorian Parables: Extravagant Reversals Richard Gibson, Books & Culture Animating Academic Discussions with Faith, Hope, Love Peter David Gross, The Scriptorium In Rare Move, University Stripped of ‘Catholic’ Title David Kerr, Catholic News Agency Spectacle, Violence, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, RationalWiki—the “rationalists’” answer to Wikipedia, I guess, has sniffed out human exceptionalism and irrationally label it “creationism.” From the entry:The angle the ‘Toot uses for this one is to publish a newsletter called The Human . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan Salam cites Luis Zingales’s suggestion that Romney run as a “pro-market populist.” Romney could run as a businessman for greater fairness and broadly rising living standards and against entrenched business interests that have allied with the . . . . Continue Reading »
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