An odd article appeared in today’s Ottawa Citizen , giving account of the research of Dr. Georg Northoff, a neuroscientist at Ottawa’s Institute of Mental Health Research. After a recent period of investigation, Northoff proclaimed that while God may well exist, the theistic domain will . . . . Continue Reading »
As an addendum to David Goldman’s column today about the publicly employed and the under-employed , I give you this graph : Then again, David’s plan to put “less-educated workers” fixing roads and bridges might lead to more stuff like this : A road contractor hired to paint . . . . Continue Reading »
Wisconsin Diocese offers birth control insurance, but warns employees not to use it , declares a local newspaper, reporting on the Catholic diocese of Madison’s bowing to a state regulation requiring health plans to cover contraception. [E]mployees will be expected to employ their consciences . . . . Continue Reading »
“Here’s a Rooseveltian way to address unemployment now at 1930s levels: Let’s create a National Infrastructure Corps to make urgently-needed repairs to roads and bridges, and put to work the disproportionately blue-collar army of unemployed,” writes David Goldman — . . . . Continue Reading »
Contraception coverage collides with Catholic Church Thousands of Catholic Church employees in Wisconsin are now eligible for birth control coverage through their health insurance plans, under the budget bill passed by the Legislature last year. But because the church considers artificial . . . . Continue Reading »
From ” Our Daughter Isn’t A Selfish Brat; Your Son Just Hasn’t Read Atlas Shrugged .” When little Aiden toddled up our daughter Johanna and asked to play with her Elmo ball, he was, admittedly, very sweet and polite. I think his exact words were, “Have a ball, peas . . . . Continue Reading »
My old business partner and mentor in supply-side economics, the late Jude Wanniski, used to say that the electorate is like a diamond: it looks cloudy, but if you cut it just right, all becomes clear. Think of “wedge” issues as a diamond-cutter’s chisel. Americans are tolerant . . . . Continue Reading »
In Mary and the Modern University , today’s first “On the Square” article, R. R. Reno reflects on the question of what Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular bring to the modern university, the typical secular answer being: nothing but obscurantism and blind faith. . . . . Continue Reading »
In More on Plagiarism , R. R. Reno admits that he feels repentant for reproving Paul Griffiths for thinking people saw knowledge as a possession and therefore saw plagiarism as stealing instead of lying. He might be more surprised to find out how many people think it’s not lying . . . . Continue Reading »
“Would Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn be on Ritalin today?” asked child psychiatrist Dr. Lawrence H. Diller in a 2004 meeting with the President’s Council on Bioethics. “No doubt in my mind that they would be if they lived in my community. I see Tom Sawyers weekly.” Anne . . . . Continue Reading »
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