The NHS is broke—and so apparently care is going to go from whatever you would call it now to an even worse mess. From the Guardian:Doctors face demonstrations outside their surgeries and questions about their high salaries by angry patients because of the government’s radical NHS . . . . Continue Reading »
1. A Brief History of Economic Time One hundred years ago the average American workweek was over 60 hours; today it’s under 35. One hundred years ago 6% of manufacturing workers took vacations; today it’s over 90%. One hundred years ago the average housekeeper spent 12 hours a day on . . . . Continue Reading »
On the always interesting Public Discourse , James Capretta engages the question of how a pro-life person should think about the ongoing debates about healthcare. The question was raised by Richard Stith in a web article for First Things , who made the arresting observation that a nationalized . . . . Continue Reading »
I appreciate Jim Capretta’s response to my First Things article , and especially his emphasis on the legitimacy of disagreement among pro-life people. (I tried very hard to avert the tragedy of mutual ostracism around Democrats for Life, to no avail. Let us hope that such own-goals can be . . . . Continue Reading »
E.J. Dionne, Jr. and William A. Galston—two very smart liberal public intellectuals—have produced a most interesting analysis of religion and the 2010 elections , based in part on the network exit polls and in part on a post-election survey they helped design. Some of what they have to . . . . Continue Reading »
Some friends have been challenging my reasoning. (I know, I know, it’s hard to imagine anyone challenging my reasoning, but who can account for the recklessness of one’s friends?) On Thursday I wrote about Fr. Raymond Schroth’s proposed one-state solution to the Israel/Palestinian . . . . Continue Reading »
Like me, you’ve probably recently asked yourself, “If FirstThings.com were a country, how populated would it be?” Fortunately, the good people at Sharenator have a tool that shows the size of media empires. According to them, if Firstthings.com were a country, it would be larger . . . . Continue Reading »
Last November, I was invited to Scotland to speak against assisted suicide and debate it at Holyrood (the parliament), the University of Glasgow, and at a large public forum in Edinburgh. The idea was for me to come to Scotland and hopefully soften the ground as the first step in a . . . . Continue Reading »
A growing number of Americans believe that marriage is becoming an obsolete institution : Marriage is increasingly optional and could be on its way to obsolescence,according to a survey of more than 2,600 Americans that examines changing attitudes about relationships today. Among the 2,691 adults . . . . Continue Reading »
I read a shocking story today that one in five Americans experienced a mental illness last year. From the story:More than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness last year, and 11 million had a serious illness, U.S. government researchers reported on . . . . Continue Reading »
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