That how Brian Domitrovic , the only American who understands completely how and why supply-side economics actually works, characterizes our new monetary policy: The idea is that if all the spending and regulation of the last few years has only resulted in nil growth, stubborn unemployment, . . . . Continue Reading »
The New Gender Economics Sandra Tsing Loh, The Atlantic What Is Morality Other Than Harm? Collin Hansen, The Gospel Coalition Anti-Islamic Ads Cleared for NYC Subway April Fehling, NPR Hagiography Made Simple Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing C. S. Lewis & Evolution Tom Bethell, The American . . . . Continue Reading »
Most proper scientists regard publicity as something of an affliction. After years of specialized and outwardly incomprehensible labors, when it comes time to go public with their findings, their hard-won conclusions are always twisted by illiterate newsmen to fit the crass demands of . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The administration’s gyrations on the murder of Libyan ambassador Stevens are disgusting. There was a well coordinated terrorist attack on American interests and personnel. There seems to have been a series of intelligence failures that left our ambassador exposed. That is bad enough, but . . . . Continue Reading »
Transhumanists keep looking for ways to radically extend their lives. I keep telling them it is a fool’s errand, but they persist. So, in the spirit of comity, I present a report in the Telegraph that could show male transhumanists now to gain a few extra decades. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
I read this survey report with some interest over the weekend. Entitling the report “Beyond Guns and God,” the authors clearly want us to cease clinging bitterly to our caricatures about the white working class. To that end, they “challenge five myths” about their subject. . . . . Continue Reading »
“This fuzziness about the origins of our nationhood is one of the things that distinguishes us as Canadians from our American cousins.”How do American and Canadian national mythologies differ? Read here to find . . . . Continue Reading »
Especially in a time like ours, in the midst of a culture of death, it is all the more tragic when an expecting mother, an expecting family really, joyfully awaits the life of their child that does not make it to term. When so many lives are “unwanted,” why would God take away one that . . . . Continue Reading »
I do not hesitate to criticize President Obama—-severely—-not only for what I regard as his misbegotten policies, but also for his personal delinquencies (such as saying things that he knows are not true). I must in candor say, however, that I believe he is getting something of a bum . . . . Continue Reading »
Canonist Ed Peters corrals a series of objections to the prospect of female Catholic deacons at his blog, In the Light of the Law . Those who follow internal Catholic theological debates will surely be aware of how this concept is occasionally raised and slyly framed in varying ways: . . . . Continue Reading »
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