There are probably a number of legitimate perspectives that First Things could offer on Glenn Beck’s recent rally in Washington, D.C. As an evangelical who is allergic to civic religion, my take is likely to be extremely unpopular. I am a fervent believer in the need for Christianity to take . . . . Continue Reading »
Japan-Style Stagnation? You Should Be So LuckyAugust 29th, 2010 By David GoldmanLast week some old comrades-in-arms from the financial industry turned up in New York from their present haunts in Europe and Asia; at the end of the week we all found ourselves on the deck of a beach house in the . . . . Continue Reading »
At the always superb Public Discourse, Matthew J. Franck and Gwen Brown have a great essay on why same-sex marriage is becoming more “accepted”: In the 1993 Seinfeld episode “The Outing,” a female reporter mistakes Jerry Seinfeld and his friend George Costanza for homosexual . . . . Continue Reading »
A new study is out that claims atheist physicians are more likely than those of a religious persuasion to hasten the deaths of patients. From the story:Terminally-ill patients would be well advised to find out the religious beliefs of their doctor, according to research showing the effect of . . . . Continue Reading »
When I was around 6 years old, I had a friend, whom I’ll call Billy, who lived round the corner from us. He was in my elementary school class, and I saw him virtually every day. We would play at each other’s homes, and I recall our walking one day to the Sunnyside Market, which was . . . . Continue Reading »
In Holy War Over Ground Zero — the “Public Square” section for the October issue, soon to arrive in your mail boxes — Joseph Bottum suggests that New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg deserves some credit for supporting the Cordoba Initiative, a.k.a. the “Ground . . . . Continue Reading »
So it’s been called to my attention that I forgot to shamelessly promote the July-September issue of PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE. Well, it’s one of the best issues ever. There’s a symposium on the dazzling and genuinely original political thought of David Walsh, edited by . . . . Continue Reading »
At InsideCatholic, Jeffrey Tucker, director of research at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, argues that Catholics don’t understand economics : For years I’ve puzzled over the question of why Catholics have such trouble coming to terms with economics. This problem applies only to modern . . . . Continue Reading »
Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen recently asked the HBS class of 2010, and the readers of the Harvard Business Review, “How will you measure your life?” (Tagline from the print edition: “Don’t reserve your best business thinking for your . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers of SHS know I love to take photographs. I post a few here from time to time, but I am often asked (I am flattered to say) to make more available. That isn’t the purpose of this site, so I have taken selected photos of our Wyoming vacation and posted them on my Facebook page (where many . . . . Continue Reading »
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