The issue of research involving stem cells derived from human embryos is back in the news after a federal judge clarified that the government cannot use federal funds for such immoral research. Although the debate has been ongoing for almost ten years, the complexity of the issue and the peculiar . . . . Continue Reading »
It is all too common these days to play off love against justice. My friend and one-time colleague Gideon Strauss, now of the Center for Public Justice, has written a marvellous piece that properly draws an intimate connection between the two. It is worth republishing below in full:“Justice is . . . . Continue Reading »
In a May 2009 essay entitled “Demographics and Depression,” I warned First Things readers that the great economic headwind of our time was demographic:Our children are our wealth. Too few of them are seated around America’s common table, and it is their absence that makes us poor. . . . . Continue Reading »
Justin Taylor has reposted David Powlison’s critique of Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Powlison is the author of the so-called Biblical Counseling chapter of the IVP Five Views book on psychology and Christianity.I’m not going to worry about the issue, pointed out several times in the . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve been criticized for not saying enough bad things about President Obama or commenting on this election season. Well, my analysis of the generic D vs. R poll and the particular races suggests that it’s extremely likely that the Republicans will take over the House. Two points of . . . . Continue Reading »
Finally, some common sense from the federal judiciary : A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked government rules on embryonic stem cell (ESC) research funding, a blow to the Obama administration which by executive order had lifted Bush-era restrictions and a victory for pro-lifers fighting to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Cato Institute has parted ways with Brink Lindsey and Will Wilkinson, who were, in Slate columnist David Weigel’s terms , “among the Cato scholars who most often find common cause with liberals.” Weigel writes that “you have to struggle not to see a political . . . . Continue Reading »
“This resorting to a knee-jerk superiority of sensibilities is itself a display of neurotic insecurity,” writes Elizabeth Scalia of the press and the center-left punditry, in today’s “On the Square” article, Rhetorical Axes and Park51 . [B]ut more importantly, it is . . . . Continue Reading »
When I was younger and more disputatious (seriously, I’ve toned it down a lot ), I used to spend too much time arguing about the Bible with KJV-only fundamentalists. The debates were about as dumb as unproductive as you’d imagine, but I still wish I could go back with this bit of . . . . Continue Reading »
What is oppression? According to the OED, to oppress means to “govern tyrannically, keep under by coercion, subject to continual cruelty or injustice.” There is general agreement, at least in the English-speaking world, that it is unjust for a government to infringe on such fundamental . . . . Continue Reading »
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