HumaneWatch, a site dedicated to criticizing the Humane Society of the United States, has an entry today that is right up SHS’s alley. From “Animals > People:”Remember Carter Dillard? Until last year he was a lawyer in HSUS’s Farm Animal Litigation department (also known . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The Size of Our Books Was Determined By The Size of the Average Sheep in the Middle Ages [M]edieval books are no bigger or smaller than modern books, generally speaking. Gutenberg and the other early printers didn’t invent a whole new format for books, they just copied what people were . . . . Continue Reading »
For some reason I had always been led to believe that Islam was a fairly intolerant religion. (I blame FOX News.) Turns out I had it completely backwards. Muslims are a Bible-loving people that like to invite Catholics over to the Mosque to pray in the name of Jesus. At least that is the story two . . . . Continue Reading »
Oregon’s suicide rate is going through the roof. Government health officials are suitably alarmed. From the Oregon Health Authority (that sounds vaguely totalitarian, doesn’t it?) press release:Oregon’s suicide rate is 35 percent higher than the national average. The rate is . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday I posted some thoughts about a recently published history of the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council. A friend chided me for ending my analysis with what he took to be a dismissive parting shot that does to progressive Catholic theology what the progressives tend to do to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Why do we even have a legislative branch? It seems a waste of time to go to the trouble of electing representatives when federal judges in California are making our laws : A federal judge in Riverside declared the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional Thursday, . . . . Continue Reading »
This is hilarious-but illustrates how woefully biased the media can be. During the Bush years, hundreds of millions was spent by the NIH on human ESCR. But that was virtually never reported as the media pretended the field was withering financially on the vine—as part of the overarching . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s second “On the Square” article, art historian Matthew Milliner reflects on whether art made for use in worship should hang in museums at all, as a Vatican scholar has suggested moving Raphael’s painting of the Transfiguration out of the Vatican’s own museum . . . . Continue Reading »
Adolescence is variously defined as the time between puberty and adulthood. When does adulthood begin? Legally it begins at age 18 in many countries, but some observers hold that adolescence only ends around age 25 and perhaps even beyond. Within this period the young person makes decisions as to . . . . Continue Reading »
As some readers will know, for much of the day yesterday the home page loaded very slowly, if at all (in web terms, which means far more slowly than anyone’s going to wait for). Many readers had heard about but could not access Stephen Barr’s Much Ado About Nothing , a response to . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
