Wait, what? Obamacare hasn’t been repealed? Why didn’t someone tell us? Nearly half of all Americans believe the health care reform law has already been repealed or aren’t sure one way or the other, a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows. Fifty-two percent of Americans believe . . . . Continue Reading »
I have written here from time to time of what I call the coup de culture, which I define as an ongoing drive that seeks to shift society away from a value system based on Judeo/Christian moral philosophy—different from faith—based on human exceptionalism and a balance of duties and . . . . Continue Reading »
From Utne Reader : Hollywood’s romantic comedies aren’t just innocuous cinematic tripe. They’re actually warping children’s minds (pdf), according to new research from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The films, including Notting Hill and You’ve Got . . . . Continue Reading »
as I explain , deserved to lose to the stuttering king. . . . . Continue Reading »
Did you miss last year’s NCAA Basketball tournament because you were reading Middlemarch ? Have you ever argued with friends about the merits of Pale Fire versus Gravity’s Rainbow ? Then you’re a candidate to catch the march madness for fiction lovers—the . . . . Continue Reading »
HSUS doesn’t generally pitch animal rights ideology in public. It merely goes about its business of methodically seeking to dismantle animal using industries, what I have called a process of chewing from the outside in. It is an effort that they know will take decades.But make no . . . . Continue Reading »
Few people write about the intellectual core of the pro-life movement quite like Robert P. George of Princeton. He is a comely figure, whose spirit always impresses foes even as his keen intellect often shames them by exposing the flaws in their logic. When my students seem to be . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m not a big fan of purely political art, but the Pratt Institute has no problem with it—as long as it’s the right kind of politics, that is. The New Criterion’ s James Panero reports : You don’t have to be an art critic to see something tasteless going on . . . . Continue Reading »
Last Summer I noted that some people think that only solution to global warming is to “think about cooling the planet” by using geoengineering. One of the proposed geoengineering solutions was to loft between two million and ten million tons of sulfur dioxide into the lower . . . . Continue Reading »
The continuing legal and political revolt against Obamacare is remarkable. I am particularly struck by the refusal by more than half the states to cooperate with the law and/or seek to invalidate it in court. I don’t recall a federal law attacked by the states in such a concerted . . . . Continue Reading »
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