Russell E. Saltzman on wishing our way to doomsday : I think we should blame President John F. Kennedy for National Geographic Channel’s Doomsday Preppers . It was his loose Cold War talk on nuclear survival that launched the doomsday survival business, I bet. He told Americans that if . . . . Continue Reading »
Wall Street recruiters receive their fill of curious applications, with some aspirants inflating GPA figures and test scores, and others presenting overwrought or bluffed accounts of job skills and experience. But one Wall Street hopeful drew praise and intrigue Monday after penning a cover . . . . Continue Reading »
If we want to shrink the income and achievement gaps, we need to grow the vocabularies of our children. So writes E.D. Hirsch, one of the brightest lights in the world of educational theory: Such correlations between vocabulary size and life chances are as firm as any correlations in educational . . . . Continue Reading »
Some of us may have missed it, but President Obama declared yesterday Religious Freedom Day in the United States. Here is an excerpt from the presidential proclamation on the White House’s website: Today, we also remember that religious liberty is not just an American right; it is a universal . . . . Continue Reading »
Life After Blue Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest The Myth of the Christian Nut Job Christine Jeske, Her.menutics Targets on Their Backs David Conway, Library of Law and Liberty Losing Our Religion: A Series on the “Nones” NPR Sarah Kliff’s Pro-Life History Michael J. . . . . Continue Reading »
“They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25,” Christopher Tolkien says, explaining why the family declined to meet Peter Jackson. In what’s said to be his first interview , published in Le Monde , the 87-year-old executor of the . . . . Continue Reading »
So I saw the science fiction movie Looper a couple of weeks ago. A lot of stuff is going on. Some of it is time travel stuff and it gets kind of complicated, but I want to focus a bit on the family dynamics. The two main male characters become mass murderers in response to losing their mothers. One . . . . Continue Reading »
I can’t quote chapter and verse, but sometime after Barry Goldwater’s defeat, William F. Buckley wrote that the political problem for conservatives was that there were not enough political conservatives. Whatever Goldwater’s flaws as a candidate, and whatever the difficulties that . . . . Continue Reading »
Hollywood reports: Bravo is stepping a little outside of its wheelhouse with its latest reality series order. The network announced Wednesday that it has given the green light to Extreme Guide to Parenting (working title). The unscripted effort from Punched in the Head is intended to offer a candid . . . . Continue Reading »
New York City—area readers may wish to attend this lecture on health care ethics by Brother Ignatius Perkins, O.P., Ph.D., R.N. on Saturday, February 2. “The Dehumanization of the Clinician and the Demise of the Healing Relationship” is the inaugural lecture of the . . . . Continue Reading »
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