“Back when Dan Quayle was criticizing sitcom heroine Murphy Brown for promoting single-parenthood in a way that could negatively affect society,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in today’s “On the Square” article, The Credentialed Gentry and the Unpersuaded Yahoos , “he . . . . Continue Reading »
Msgr. Charles Pope continues his instructive series with a post on the problem of polygenism : There is also another matter which the Theory of Evolution gives rise to that a Catholic must be aware of and realize that he or she cannot give it uncritical acceptance. This is the usual premise in . . . . Continue Reading »
By now, you have probably seen, or at least heard of , this ad: I have no idea what Rand Paul did when he was an undergraduate at Baylor University, but I doubt that he ever seriously worshipped false idols. (Full disclosure: when I was young and cynical, and as yet unacquainted with that . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacare seeks to help the (relatively) few (in the millions) at the expense of the many (in the hundreds of millions). This is too bad because I believe we could and should have helped the relatively few without taking it out of the hide of the many—but that would have required the . . . . Continue Reading »
Once upon a time in a Kingdom by the wine-dark sea, there lived a very silly king. Like most kings of his day, his kingdom was very small, but he had better people than he deserved. The castle was famous for its intricate design and the care the servants took with it. The King was also blessed with . . . . Continue Reading »
In ” Marriage and the Law of Tradition ,” a new posting on Public Discourse, R. J. Snell recounts the reasons St. Thomas gives authority to tradition. St. Thomas viewed the laws of society (a notion that encompassed written laws as well as social norms) as subject to rational scrutiny. . . . . Continue Reading »
When I first heard about Dinesh D’Souza’s theory that President Obama can best be understood through the framework of Kenyan anticolonialism I thought it was a joke. It seemed like it’d make a clever, table-turning satire of pseudo-academic pretensions. But the D’souza turned . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve discussed this before—promoting suicide as a prophylactic against the pain of expected future grief. For example, the Canadian assisted suicide advocate Ruth Von Fuchs specifically supported a woman who wanted to commit suicide with her terminally ill husband at the Swiss . . . . Continue Reading »
My friends at The Tablet, a Jewish-interest webzine, are running a week-long series on Turkey’s ominous shift to Islamism. The editors write:The transformation of Turkey from close military and strategic ally to bitter public enemy may be the most consequential blow Israel has sustained in the . . . . Continue Reading »
“‘May his name be blotted out!’ declares the most terrible Hebrew curse,” begins the latest Spengler column, written by our senior editor David P. Goldman. History has devised a curse more terrible still, that is, to have one’s memory blotted out, all except for a name . . . . Continue Reading »
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