According to the Daily Telegraph , China is planning to create the world’s biggest mega city by merging nine cities to create a metropolis that is bigger than New Jersey, Hawaii, and Rhode Island combined: The “Turn The Pearl River Delta Into One” scheme will create a 16,000 sq . . . . Continue Reading »
Charlotte Shane is the pen name of a young woman who, as she says, writes “honestly about my life as a prostitute on a modestly trafficked blog.” Although Shane claims she doesn’t glamorize her profession or revel in “sensasionalist hype”, she has numerous young . . . . Continue Reading »
Future translators of the New Testament might wish to consult this remote community in the Pontic region of Asia Minor:Incidentally, ???????? means Roman, which harks back to the time when Orthodox Christians living in the Eastern Roman Empire called themselves ???????, or Romans, a designation used . . . . Continue Reading »
At the end of his speech last night, President Obama said, “And tonight, more than two centuries later, it’s because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong.” If you were surprised to hear that the union is strong . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s my take on Tocqueville’s take on it. This is evidence to support the view of Walker Percy that the Calvinists (Puritans) and the Southern Stoics are America’s indigenous counter-cultural alternatives. . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacarians assure us that the new law prohibits coverage for abortion. That’s not true. It was merely one of the many shell games played by its supporters. The law left to the bureaucracy to include abortion as an indirectly covered procedure in subsidized state . . . . Continue Reading »
Cold weather and rosary-bead sightings were just about all the secular reporters appeared concerned with at this year’s national March for Life, many of them drawing more attention to the chill in the air than to pro-lifers’ resilient reasons to bear it. And that was when they reported . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s my view, including an un-Porcher interpretation of the “Sputnik moment”—then and now. . . . . Continue Reading »
Young athletes are often encouraged by their coaches to give 110 percent effort in every game. But what happens when they actually do their best and have a modicum of talent? They are chastised for exhibiting unsportsmanlike conduct . It’s been called unsportsmanlike. It’s been called . . . . Continue Reading »
This summer will see two fine opportunities for anyone interested in the riches of the Catholic tradition. The first—a philosophy workshop on Thomas Aquinas and contemporary philosophy—will take place in late June (23rd through 26th) at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, New York. . . . . Continue Reading »
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