In the December 2009 issue of First Things Mary Eberstadt explained how pedophilia chic went out of style . Sadly, not everyone got the message in time. As Jennifer Grant at her.meneutics explains: The most recent issue of Vogue Paris (or should I say l’issue de janvier/février ?) . . . . Continue Reading »
NYT columnist Ross Douthat voiced a strong thought I had yesterday—but decided not to get into so as to not muddy the waters—when reporting about a NYT Magazine story extolling a couple buying the services of four women—two for eggs and two “gestating carriers”—so . . . . Continue Reading »
If this works out, it could save tremendously on resources—and more importantly, help catch cancers very early and gauge the effectiveness of ongoing treatments. Like all modern medical advances, I’ll bet animal research was part of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Until virtually the dawn of the modern age the historic heartland of Christianity — possibly containing most of the world’s Christians at the time — included the lands of north Africa and what we now know as the Middle East. Yet over successive centuries the Christians there have . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been working on a book off and on for the last year or so. The working title is Renewing the Conservative Imagination . My thesis is that our age is defined by an antinomian conviction. If we will but be free from moral norms, then we will be happy. Put differently, our age is Bohemian. . . . . Continue Reading »
The movie, “True Grit,” is the drama of a small but relentless coterie of citizens, instigated and led by Miss Mattie, to gain justice for the murder of her horse trading father, by the coward, Chaney, down in the Arkansas territory sometime after the ‘civil’ war. It is . . . . Continue Reading »
We have discussed here how radical environmentalists and global warming hysterics have extolled China’s tyrannical one-child policy as a model for the West to follow. In addition to being despotic, a side effect of formal population control—at least in China—has been explicit . . . . Continue Reading »
Franciscan brothers from the Bronx settle in a rough Irish town . “And we were shown this area Moyross and it seemed like a perfect place: there were burnt out houses there was graffiti on walls there dogs and horses wandering around aimlessly sometimes kids wandering around,” said . . . . Continue Reading »
The folks at Electric Literature test to see if if any of last year’s door-stopper novels are also bullet-stoppers. (Via: Tablet ) . . . . Continue Reading »
I read a piece in the Washington Post by Norm Ornstein last week, in which he thinks he cleverly hoisted conservatives on the death panel petard. Arizona—as we have discussed—and now Indiana Medicaid, refused treatments (in the latter’s case because, the state claimed, it is . . . . Continue Reading »
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