First Links — 9.13.12

Ending the Radicalization Spiral H. A. Hellyer, Foreign Policy Why E. Y. Mullins is Essential to Understanding Baptists Trevin Wax, Kingdom People I Don’t Need Anything I Think I Do Drew Tatusko,  Emerging into Orthodoxy Spinoza in Shtreimels Carlos Fraenkel, Jewish Review of Books In . . . . Continue Reading »

NHS Meltdown: Patients as “Parcels”

The NHS crisis keeps getting worse. Now, because doctors don’t want to work “anti social hours” and due to work regulations, some hospitals are in danger of imploding during weekends.  From the Telegraph story:Patients’ lives are at risk in NHS hospital wards that are . . . . Continue Reading »

Jewish Law and Civil Procedure

Our friend Samuel Levine and the Touro Law Center’s Jewish Law Institute (which he directs) is offering its Fall 2012 Distinguished Lecture, “A Comparative Look at Jewish Law and Civil Procedure,” given by Rabbi Yona Reiss. An experienced attorney, Rabbi Reiss is dean of the . . . . Continue Reading »

On the Square Today

George Weigel on the future of the pro-life cause : “It’s the economy, stupid!”—James Carville’s memorable note-to-self during the 1992 presidential race—will be the determining factor in the 2012 campaign, according to the common wisdom. That may be true. But as . . . . Continue Reading »

Thomas Aquinas Tells a Joke

Here is a delightful example of St. Thomas’ sense of humor, from Questions on Whatever (Quaestiones Quodlibetales), Question 12, Article 20:  Whether truth is stronger than either wine, the king or woman. Objections:  It seems that wine (is stronger than the others) because it affects . . . . Continue Reading »

The Arab Autumn and American Principles

I’m still trying to come to terms with my feelings (mostly angry) regarding the vicious attacks on American diplomatic posts in Benghazi and Cairo. Like the author of the American embassy’s twitter feed , I certainly deplore gratuitous insults directed at any religion. But I would have . . . . Continue Reading »