This Chronicle of Higher Education post-mortem on the failed “Great Books college for devotees of Ayn Rand” filled me with both Schadenfreude and sadness. Because I’m a decent human being—at least most of the time—I don’t like to mock failure. But . . . . Continue Reading »
If readers will pardon a reminder on this feast of the Immaculate Conception: in my column on Monday I tried to explain what the Church says about this and why she asserts something that to many of our Protestant brethren seems entirely invented. See Delivered From All Stain . . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote about this emerging issue with Obamacare before, but the number of Obamacare waivers have now doubled. Why? To prevent a lot of people from losing their insurance. From the story:The Obama Administration has quietly granted even more waivers to one provision of the new . . . . Continue Reading »
My plans to complete this series have been delayed by a medical emergency in our extended family, which has necessitated an unexpected trip out of state and a lot of time in prayer and family decision-making. It was always going to be a difficult topic to write on. These events in a way bring the . . . . Continue Reading »
Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is sometimes an almost unbearably bad novel, but it keeps selling. I just finished rereading it trying to find what can be redeemed from it beyond the obvious fact that it opposes the evil of collectivism. I need more because it is easy to find a more concise and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Health Administration Blog has named SHS one of the “Top 50” blogs about stem cell research, in the “Bioethics” section. (The listings appear to be alphabetical in each section.) Whoever prepared the list sure did their homework. There are a lot of good blogs . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday Ross Douthat penned—can we still say that?—a column based on the annual report on The State of Our Unions issued jointly by the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project and the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values . The report . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week I drew attention to the way in which Robert Orsi, the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies at Northwestern University, slammed the Catholic Church in an online tirade . I’m someone who respects (and respectfully disagrees) with a great deal of loyal Catholic dissent. Yes, . . . . Continue Reading »
We have previously discussed the injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who ruled that President Obama’s embryonic stem cell funding policy violated federal law. That funding cutoff was stayed on appeal, the oral arguments of which were heard yesterday. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
In America, the highly educated (people with college degrees) are more likely to go to church every week than are the moderately educated (high school diploma or some college): In addition to an “education gap” in marriage, there is also a “faith gap,” says the new State of . . . . Continue Reading »
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