Last week I reflected on the genius of Solzhenitsyn’s great novel, In the First Circle . Some readers weighed in on other aspects of Solzhenitsyn’s thought, especially his famous Harvard Address, given in 1978, four years after arriving in the United States as an exile from Russia. The . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s not because of its sonority, its emotion, its excellence, or its beauty. No, forget all that; none of those messy, unscientific explanations get to the bottom of why we like music. The real truth has at last been revealed in its fulness: Whether it’s the Beatles or Beethoven, people . . . . Continue Reading »
In 2009, Planned Parenthood received $363 million in government funding and performed 329,008 abortions. Congressman Mike Pence recently introduced legislation to prohibit funding to any organization that performs abortion. As Pence says: The largest abortion provider in America should not also be . . . . Continue Reading »
I am a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture—but had nothing to do with the creation of the important documentary Eggsploitation (although I do have one line in it). The movie deals with the dangers of egg donation, and is now being shown at film festivals. . . . . Continue Reading »
It is very clear now that the primary source for making the connection between autism and vaccines was fraudulent. (We’ve dealt with this issue before at SHS.) Indeed, that now seems beyond dispute. (Here’s a link to the compelling BMJ article debunking the evidence.) The . . . . Continue Reading »
Tong Phuoc Phuc is a one-man Crisis Pregnancy Center. (Via: Creative Minority Report ) Note: My friend Sarah Pulliam Bailey from Christianity Today pointed out that this story is from 2008. Still, it’s such a timeless story that if you haven’t heard about it before it’s worth . . . . Continue Reading »
A Queen’s University Classics professor may have found a reference that Dan Brown missed. Ross Kilpatrick believes the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, incorporates images inspired by the Roman poet Horace and Florentine poet Petrarch . The technique of taking a passage from . . . . Continue Reading »
We’re excited to announce that our friend and contributing writer Elizabeth Scalia has taken a job as the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos . Sadly, it also means that her blog, The Anchoress, has moved to Patheos too. The new address is . . . . Continue Reading »
At its best, art expresses a culture’s best virtues, greatest beauty. But these days, art is more often lauded—or at least given attention—if it is unintelligible, pornographic, subversive, disrespectful, and/or denigrates cherished values or religious traditions.One such value is . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Here’s the first installment of my appreciation of yet another good film of the season. 2. Although I only have patience for one link per post, let me say that I agree with Pistol Pete at NO LEFT TURNS that Mitch Daniels might be the best Republican candidate next year. The reason, of . . . . Continue Reading »
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