David Tubbs of King’s College reviews Martha Nussbaum’s From Disgust to Humanity . She “wants to show that much of that opposition arises from what she calls the “politics of disgust”—a politics based on visceral reactions and disreputable attempts at . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel’s Wednesday column is our second ” On The Square ” essay today; in it, Weigel continues to examine the “tectonic shifts” in Catholic episcopal leadership in America, including recent measures by Bishop Thomas Olmsted: Bishop Olmsted inherited a terrible . . . . Continue Reading »
The sun has reached it midday zenith, and I’m still staring at the blank page on my desk. I had promised myself that I would begin writing about Akeksandr Solzhenitsyn’s In The First Circle —a key part of a book project that I’m calling, “The Renewal of the Conservative . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m getting whiplash. First,they are in, then they are out, then they are in—and now, after all the yelling and defending, they are out again. What? Payment for doctors to provide end of life counseling. From the NYT story:The Obama administration, reversing course, . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s New York Times website is hosting a debate on whether there should be a federal tax credit for parents who homeschool. Many of the official commentators think that regulation should accompany the money, if indeed a tax credit should be given at all. I have news for them. In many . . . . Continue Reading »
The board of directors for the Institute on Religion and Public Life has released the following statement: Joseph Bottum and the Board of the Institute on Religion and Public life have agreed that Dr. Bottum’s service as editor of First Things would end as of December 1 to allow Dr. Bottum to . . . . Continue Reading »
Some recent events have left me pondering why people believe what they do. As I’ve gotten older, the connection between the head and the heart, and the intellect and the character, has only gotten more mysterious to me. People are more opaque, more unavailable, than I once thought. The young . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is not only one of the greatest works of literature ever produced in America, it’s also one of the works most often targeted to be banned in public and school libraries. That is why the only thing I find surprising about a publisher releasing a . . . . Continue Reading »
We Americans are fat. [Audience says: How fat are we?] We Americans are so fat that now even our babies are obese . Almost one-third of 9-month-olds are obese or overweight, as are 34 percent of 2-year-olds, according to the research, which looked at a nationally representative sample of children . . . . Continue Reading »
The more they do things like this, the less people will take them seriously. A scientific study urges that we investigate replacing meat with bugs to save the planet. From the story in Science:Forget eating local or eating organic, the new way to dine green may be eating gross. Meat . . . . Continue Reading »
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