Late notice, but New York area readers may be interested to know about a conference titled “Why morality-free economic theory does not work” and offering a “natural law perspective” on the subject. The main speaker is Italian economist Luigno Bruni, author of the recent . . . . Continue Reading »
So it turns out that the whole Salem Witch Trial business may have been the result of a fungus. As it happens, this theory, more like a hypothesis, similar to a hunch, probably a total waste of ink, was first made public in 1976. But it’s new to me. And if it’s new to me, it’s new to you, . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on the conceit of primacy : Just as coastal conceit can devalue what comes out of “flyover country,” our First-world conceit can blind us to what is happening in the church “out there” among the “thems.” Upon learning that in 2004 Hungarian Archbishop . . . . Continue Reading »
After about 30 years of teaching college students, I’ve learned a lot of the tricks for prompting discussion among students—not that I have always been successful. One is to argue vigorously that two like cases are unlike, or that two unlike cases are alike, and see if the students rise . . . . Continue Reading »
Rapper 50 Cent recently took to Twitter to outline a four-step plan for sexual purity. We hear enough, mostly true, about the crassness of today’s pop-music that it’s worth highlighting when one of its stars speaks out for virtue (whatever else he has said against it elsewhere): [ <a . . . . Continue Reading »
I live in Georgia’s newest city, which actually won’t be a city for a couple of months yet. But we have to get organized, and so we have to elect a mayor and city council to get the city up and running. Last evening I attended a forum for city council candidates in my district. Much of . . . . Continue Reading »
Generation Whine: Self-Pitying Twentysomethings and the Boomers Who Made Them Laura Bennett, The New Republic The Book of Common Prayer at Three Hundred Fifty James Wood, The New Yorker Patheos Contretemps Re: Andy Warhol Thomas L. McDonald, God and the Machine Religious Themes in J. K. . . . . Continue Reading »
Rick Garnett at Mirror of Justice has chosen the right word to describe Adam Gopnik’s comments on abortion: confused. What is striking (and mildly amusing) is that those comments are so poorly informed and intellectually unsophisticated. Now, I’m guessing here, but I suspect that . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend, writer, and advisory council member Timothy George is representing the world’s Baptists at the Synod of Bishops now meeting for two weeks in Rome. The title of the Synod is the New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith, and Timothy was invited for obvious . . . . Continue Reading »
Scholars we pomocons like, such as Charles Kesler and Jeremy Rabkin, review Obama’s overall pattern of consulting the Constitution when considering action. And the overall pattern is by now clear: He doesn’t. H/T Instapundit. P.S. Anyone read much of the new Kesler book yet? . . . . Continue Reading »
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