This is an odds n’ ends post. I’m going to do ONE more post on rock films, soon enough, and then give that series a rest for a while. High-time for the songbook to get back to SONGS. This week I came across a two interesting tidbits. First, my good friend, philosophic advisor, and loyal . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So I have an article on the frontpage of First Things today. It adapts part of the first chapter of my Master’s Thesis to the 47% flap (sorry about that Mrs. Romney.) 2. Great Medicare speech by Paul Ryan at the AARP today. It hit all the right notes in . . . . Continue Reading »
As he attempts to quell the controversy over his recent comments about the alleged dependency habits of nearly half of all Americans, Mitt Romney may have a bigger challenge ahead: inspiring social conservatives to vote for him. Ever since he entered the presidential sweepstakes, a segment of . . . . Continue Reading »
Apropos my On the Square column today, a report notes that more people die from suicide in the USA than from car crashes. From the Healthday story:More Americans now commit suicide than die in car crashes, making suicide the leading cause of injury deaths, according to a new study... . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is a video from the University of Pennsylvania’s Stephanos Bibas on his new book, The Machinery of Criminal Justice , which I am currently reading for a review and can already recommend. Bibas recently wrote for First Things on what made Chuck Colson “the . . . . Continue Reading »
Wesley J. Smith on invisible Suicide Prevention Day : When I was practicing law from the mid-1970s into the 1980s, there was tremendous emphasis given in the popular media and within the bar association to the cause of suicide prevention. Hotlines proliferated, anti-suicide billboards were . . . . Continue Reading »
Esteemed scholar Francis Watson of Durham University suspects the so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife , on which I wrote yesterday , might ultimately prove a forgery. He’s written a brief summary (pdf) of a longer piece (pdf) explaining his suspicions. From the summary: The papyrus fragment . . . . Continue Reading »
My biweekly On the Square today deals with the wave of suicide prevention. I partly blame the assisted suicide movement and the suicide prevention community’s failure to grapple with the pro advocacy of the “death with dignity” crowd.I begin by noting that suicide prevention seems . . . . Continue Reading »
I leave it to Leroy Huizenga to give a more in-depth, scholarly reaction to Harvard professor Karen King’s newly discovered “fragment.” His analysis focuses on the newly-discovered document in the context of its time period, specifically its relationship to other Gnostic . . . . Continue Reading »
Joel Osteen: America’s Cheerful Waffler Kristin Rudolph, Juicy Ecumenism The Consequences of Finn’s Conviction Michelle Martin, Our Sunday Visitor Roger Scruton and the Right Caroline Crampton, New Statesman Locke, Hume, and Acquiring Property Samuel Goldman, . . . . Continue Reading »
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