During my recent anti-euthanasia national tour of Australia, I was brought to Perth, the capital of Western Australia, because opponents expected a legalization bill to come up for a vote. I met some state MPs, gave a speech to a good size crowd, and was very encouraged by the energetic . . . . Continue Reading »
Now up on “On the Square”: Joseph Knippenberg’s Moderating Patriotism , examining the differences between the conservative pairing of God and country and what he calls the “liberal cosmopolitan” pairing of universal empathy and human rights. It’s a kind of . . . . Continue Reading »
As promised, I have an extended article on the DeGette/Castle/Specter—two of three of which have been booted from their jobs already by voters—bills in Congress that would not only set Obama’s ESCR funding policy in statutory concrete, but also surreptitiously fund human cloning . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers will want to know about The City , a (fairly) new and impressive journal published by Houston Baptist University. For one thing, its writers include many names that have appeared in First Things , like our web editor Joe Carter, Matthew Lee Anderson, and Ryan T. Anderson (all . . . . Continue Reading »
“The New Testament does not seem to encourage patriotism,” and neither did St. Augustine, argues R. R. Reno in today’s first “On the Square” article, Patriots in Babylon . “It is easy, therefore, for a Christian to take an entirely critical stance toward . . . . Continue Reading »
William Doino, one of the authors of Pius XII and the Distorting Ellipsis published in “On the Square” last Thursday, has written a review of Hubert Wolf’s Pope and Devil for America . He shows in some detail how the book disproves the charges against the then Msgr. . . . . Continue Reading »
A helpful discussion on the role of Islam in America by Thomas F. Farr—posted on The Public Discourse —points out the ways in which the recent controversy about an Islamic Center near Ground Zero threatens to side-track the positive contributions that Muslims can make in America. At the . . . . Continue Reading »
They still don’t get it. Today House Republicans are releasing “ Pledge to America ,” a 21 page, 8,000 word document outlining their new governing agenda, a copy of which is now making the rounds. The editors of National Review issued a fawning, effusive editorial , claiming it is . . . . Continue Reading »
Apropos of our recent discussion of pro ESCR advocates corrupting science by redefining the term embryo so as to make those in Petri dishes essentially nonentities: Nature editorialized against that form of scientific corruption 2005. It bears restating. From “Playing the Name . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently the anti science meme that an embryo isn’t really an embryo isn’t going to be given up easily by ESCR proponents. Some of the ridiculous comments to my post about the court ruling in Sherley v. Sebelius illustrated how science is being corrupted by those who think of . . . . Continue Reading »
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