Opponents of the death penalty claim execution by lethal injections is an unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment because the prisoners being killed could possibly feel pain during the execution process. Assisted suicide advocates claim that assisted suicide with the same drug allows a . . . . Continue Reading »
The Acton Institute remembered that I wrote about Alabama and Susan Pace Hamill’s tax crusade in The End of Secularism. In the book, I didn’t express agreement or disagreement with her argument. Instead, I used the politics of the episode to show something about the . . . . Continue Reading »
The gentleman is a social role that implies a recognition of forms and limits that constrain action, says Mark T. Mitchell , even as those very forms and limits elevate the meaning and nobility of actions they enjoin: Forms and limits are not welcomed in a culture that sees freedom as the highest . . . . Continue Reading »
When asked about the recent investigation by Live Action into Planned Parenthood’s willingness to cover us underage sex trafficking, President Obama responded that it was all just a “distraction” : I think sometimes these issues get manufactured, they get a lot of attention in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Some of my friends from Front Porch Republic have helped launch a new interdisciplinary, academic journal called ANAMNESIS, A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place, and ‘Things Divine.’ Issues explored by the journal’s contributors will include “civil society, agrarianism, . . . . Continue Reading »
Let me try to make the connection implied in the above title. First off, I’m trying to mainstrem the postmodern and conservative view of designing babies at BIG THINK . And here’s more , in response to an irate transhumanist. And all this talk on secession—and the passions being . . . . Continue Reading »
A former football player named Dave Duerson committed suicide and asked that his brain be donated to research an affliction that may be caused by receiving too many blows to the head. From the story:For 11 years, Dave Duerson made his living as a hard-hitting safety in the NFL and was known . . . . Continue Reading »
In Fairlie, Texas, a small community northeast of Dallas, you’ll find the Cross Trails Cowboy Church . Although I’ve passed it a couple of times while traveling through that area, I wasn’t aware that inside was posted the Cowboy’s Ten Commandments: (1) Just one God. (2) Put . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s an odd theory that I’ve never heard about before: In 1889 Fredericka Beardsley Gilchrist advanced a theory that the entire meaning of Hamlet has been confused because of a typographical error. In Act I, Scene V, the ghost reveals to Hamlet his mother’s adultery and his . . . . Continue Reading »
Glenn T. Stanton explains why what you’ve heard about the rate of Christians getting divorced is wrong : “Christians divorce at roughly the same rate as the world!” It’s one of the most quoted stats by Christian leaders today. And it’s perhaps one of the most . . . . Continue Reading »
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