Here is Megan McArdle on the new Oregon Medicaid study. One implication is that a comprehensive prepayment model of health insurance might not be the most cost effective way to get people health care services. There is no statistically significant evidence that Medicaid improved the health outcomes . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers who’ve finished Ephraim Radner’s unambiguous review of Candida Moss’ The Myth of Persecution (May 2013) may be interested to know that the exchange continues in Notre Dame’s Irish Rover , the school’s alternative Catholic paper. Moss focuses on . . . . Continue Reading »
I posted earlier this week about the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s special report on violations of religious liberty in Syria . Also this week, USCIRF issued its annual, comprehensive (364 pages) report on religious freedom around the world . It makes for . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert T. Miller replies to R. R. Reno on capitalism and economic freedom : The debate on economic issues between conservatives and liberals is not about whether the government should regulate the market or whether wealth should be redistributed. Rather, the debate between economic conservatives . . . . Continue Reading »
In his warmly pastoral Friends in Christ: Paths to a New Understanding of Church , Brother John of Taizé discusses the rise of monasticism as a response to Scriptural injunctions to brotherly love. Monasticism, in this account, was the place where a uniquely Christian theology of friendship . . . . Continue Reading »
I just finished watching the Fox News special ” See No Evil ” on abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who is on trial in Philadelphia for multiple murders and other crimes. Gosnell can’t understand how it can be that he is facing prison and possibly even the death penalty for killing the . . . . Continue Reading »
Beauty That Makes You Want to Believe Br. Henry Stephan, O.P., Dominicana Selected Translations Micah Mattix, Books & Culture Move to the City Alan Jacobs, American Conservative The Decline of the Rabbi-Intellectual Zach Mann, Jewish Ideas Daily Hope, North Korea, and Choco Pies Richard Lloyd . . . . Continue Reading »
An art restorer at the Vatican has discovered what may be the first Western painting of Native Americans, hidden under grime in a fresco finished in 1494. The painting is Pinturicchio’s “ Christ’s Resurrection ,” and the newly uncovered figures—-“nude men, . . . . Continue Reading »
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