Walker Percy in Houston
by Micah MattixWe will be screening Walker Percy: A Documentary Film at Houston Baptist University tomorrow night. I’ll be giving a brief introduction to Percy before the film and would love to meet any fellow readers of First Things . The screening is free and open to the public. It begins at 8:30 p.m. in . . . . Continue Reading »
Radical Life Extention: Calorie Restrictors—You Call That Living?
by Wesley J. SmithFront page story in today’s SF Chronicle: “UCSF Taking Closer Look at ‘Calorie Restrictors.” From the story (no link until Saturday):Trent Arensault has eaten the same breakfast, lunch and dinner for the past four or five years: a fruit smoothie in the morning, a spinach . . . . Continue Reading »
Phoebe Snow Put Motherhood Over Show Business
by Wesley J. SmithWhen I heard the news that she had died, I realized I hadn’t thought about the singer Phoebe Snow for many years. It turns out that was because she gave up stardom to care for her disabled child. From her obituary:At the peak of her fame, in December 1975, she gave birth to a . . . . Continue Reading »
Political Correctness Comes to Our Lexicon Over Animals
by Wesley J. SmithAcademia grows increasingly loony—and the cause is rejecting human exceptionalism. Our latest example comes from the new field of “animal ethics,” where some academics want us to stop insulting our dogs and cats by calling them “pets.” From the story: Animal . . . . Continue Reading »
Why Ron Paul is Pro-Life
by Joe CarterIn his forthcoming book, Liberty Defined , Congressman Ron Paul explains why he is pro-life : On one occasion in the 1960s when abortion was still illegal, I witnessed, while visiting a surgical suite as an OB/GYN resident, the abortion of a fetus that weighed approximately two pounds. It was . . . . Continue Reading »
The Problem of Weevils
by Meghan DukeThis morning On the Square , Russ Saltzman ponders the intricacies of a Eucharistic faith: Then there are questions bothering me yet about elements that are inadvertently added to the elements. I have reluctantly swallowed a fly (wasn’t much way to avoid it) from the chalice while . . . . Continue Reading »
Colleges Need to Counsel Students on How to Live Chastely in Pornland
by Joe CarterColleges are failing the young, as James Matthew Wilson notes , by not helping them to learn how to live chastely in our pornographic culture: A group called the Young Conservatives of Texas have helped craft legislation which would require any Texas public university with a center for . . . . Continue Reading »
The Archetypal and Declining Jesuits
by David Mills“But even as the Jesuits brace for near-extinction in this part of the world, their ideals are spreading,” writes a sympathetic Washington Post reporter in Fewer Jesuit priests this Easter, but more people learning Jesuit ideals . The lack of new priests, they say, must be part of . . . . Continue Reading »
Global Warming Hysteria: What is Good for the Skeptic Should be Good for the Believer
by Wesley J. SmithAcademic Freedom. Don’t you love it? I do. But I have noticed in my work that these days, AF tends to be a one way street—protecting those with “approved” views, but leaving heterodox thinkers twisting in the wind of denied tenure, teaching . . . . Continue Reading »
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