If we are to have more affordable health care—single payer won’t do it, in my view—we need robust, interstate competition by health insurance companies, which would lead to greater innovation in policies and affordable options, such as catastrophic coverage with high . . . . Continue Reading »
Christopher O. Tollefsen argues that accepting the “liberal” definition on pregnancy can actually help clarify the morality of contraception, abortion, and embryo adoption: Liberals and conservatives sometimes spar over the definition of pregnancy. Some liberals define the term as . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: Every Friday on First Thoughts we host a discussion about some aspect of popular culture. Have a suggestion for a topic? Send them to me at jcarter@firstthings.com] In honor of yesterday’s golden anniversary of The Flintstones —the show first aired on Sept. 30, . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Sobran has slipped away, dying at age sixty-four . What can one say? He was a polymath, a genius, and a sometimes brilliant writer of enormous speed and fluidity. And he drove himself nearly mad, embracing conspiracy theories and the crankiest of ways to reject consensus—from the . . . . Continue Reading »
[caption id=”attachment_8985” align=”aligncenter” width=”150” caption=”Dr. Mark Olson”][/caption]Dr. Mark Olson recently sat down with me to discuss seminary and its challenges and opportunities. Dr. Olson is the President of the John Leland . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Kinsley thinks Baby Boomers are a failed generation. I agree. We have been the most self satisfied and smug generation in this nation’s history—with the least about which to be smug and self satisfied, unless self absorption is warrants such attitudes. But...We should not, . . . . Continue Reading »
Promising news from the stem cell front:Scientists reported Thursday they had developed a technique that can quickly create safe alternatives to human embryonic stem cells, a major advance toward developing a less controversial approach for treating for a host of medical problems.The researchers . . . . Continue Reading »
Two women carried out a joint suicide pact in the UK, using dangerous chemicals. From the story:The pair, believed to be in their 20s, were found in a flat in Putney, south west London. The windows had been taped up and police believe toxic vapours were released which they inhaled. Detectives . . . . Continue Reading »
William Oddie makes an intriguing suggestion : . . . [I]t might now be time seriously to start thinking about an unavoidable question: after John Henry Newman, who next? My answer is that it can only be Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The obvious objection to this is that Chesterton was nothing like our . . . . Continue Reading »
As President of the John Adams Center for the Study of Faith, Philosophy and Public Affairs, I’ve been working on a statement of our purposes, and thus on an explanation of the critical importance for society of careful philosophical engagement with the deepest underlying issues. I . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
