The New York Times, maybe not unsurprisingly, recruits subscribers through college emails with the offer of limited free access. Today’s offering, from the cover of Sunday’s Book Review brought the headline, Sex and God at Yale , by Nathan Harden, from a review titled, . . . . Continue Reading »
Enough of the nonsense about “mutilation.” The American Academy of Pediatrics will issue a positive endorsement of infant circumcision on Monday as having sufficient health benefits to justify the procedure. From the AAP statement:Evaluation of current evidence indicates that the . . . . Continue Reading »
Starting at the 4:50 mark of this film essay, Matt Zurcher identifies three kinds of baptism that serve as visual rhymes in P.T. Anderson’s great “There Will Be Blood.” Anderson will be coming out with ” The Master ” this fall, a film that looks to continue his . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I’m sort of moved to speak up for the populist conservative media (talk radio, Fox News - and Bret Baier and Chris Wallace on Fox are good by any standard.) They give a substantial fraction of the public the information and reinforcement they want. They make money. They make . . . . Continue Reading »
Revivalist Todd Bentley has been barred from the United Kingdom because of his sometime use of physical violence—-including kicking and punching—-to heal. Bentley, who gained prominence after the “Lakeland Outporing,” a 100-day revival that drew 30,000 attendees . . . . Continue Reading »
Just days after criminal charges were filed against a rabbi in Germany for performing circumcisions comes major news from Yair Rosenberg in Tablet magazine : America’s leading group of pediatricians is set to endorse the procedure. Rosenberg writes: A leaked copy of the new American . . . . Continue Reading »
In a feature article for New York magazine, Jonathan Chait examines the cultural sway of television and movies, concluding that their influence may be even greater than imagined. Especially in rapidly-industrializing folk societies like parts of rural India and Brazil, the power of electronic . . . . Continue Reading »
Wesley J. Smith on our neurotic fear of suffering : Ironically, our many medical triumphs and the consequential receding of serious suffering from everyday experience created a concomitant terror of travail that threatens the morality of society. For example, when people actually did die in agony, . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been in this work since 1993, and during that time I often asked myself the “why now” question, e.g., why now euthanasia? I decided to tackle that question in my biweekly On the Square column. From, “Our Neurotic Fear of Suffering:” Never in human history . . . . Continue Reading »
It is too little known that young women who allow themselves to be egg harvested risk very serious complications (as exposed in the CBC’s Eggsploitation). For women to give actual informed consent, this information should be disclosed. But apparently, many IVF recruiters . . . . Continue Reading »
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