Inventing news where there is none is not a new pastime for the press, but the intense interest that the European media has shown in the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the elder brother of Pope Benedict XVI, goes beyond the usual range of invidious gossip. The 86-year-old Monsignor Ratzinger, the retired . . . . Continue Reading »
The danger of global warming became clear as it is blamed for radically declining musk ox populations. From the story:A team of scientists has discovered that the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began roughly 12,000 years ago was due to a warming climate rather than to human . . . . Continue Reading »
There has been an attempt ongoing for some time to harness the respectability of science and conflate it with an increasingly popular philosophy known as scientism. But scientism and science are different things. The latter is a powerful method of obtaining and applying material facts and . . . . Continue Reading »
Let us assume that liberty is: “every man doing what is right in his own eyes.”If that is liberty, then liberty is not an absolute good for a Biblical Christian.Let us try a more careful notion of liberty instead: “the power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, . . . . Continue Reading »
Ponnuru and Lowry respond to their critics . I’m the sure the sphere will be all over this within hours. But a few particularly egregious points are worth noting. 1) Ponnuru and Lowry claim that Obama rejects American exceptionalism in favor of the “Wilsonian project of relocating . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s not much to say, other than “Lord, have mercy.”The latest update from his wife:It is with a heavy heart that I bring my latest update on Michael. We have learned that his cancer is too advanced and too aggressive to expect any sort of remission. Our oncologist estimates . . . . Continue Reading »
Novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein offers her list of five best novels of ideas —Saul Bellow’s Herzog , Thomas Mann’s The Holy Sinner , Iris Murdoch’s The Black Prince , Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams , and George Eliot’s Middlemarch : George . . . . Continue Reading »
The Bible is a most valuable book . . . being without error and all.It is not, however, an exhaustive text on every single thing a human must know or even should know. It does contain all you need to know for salvation, but will, perhaps, let you down if you attempt to use it to answer the question: . . . . Continue Reading »
Let me commend to our readers the work of noted Christian apologist John Locke on the topic of liberty and happiness. His recent work on human understanding is, perhaps, wrong on innate ideas, but attempts a consistent description of human capacity in a Biblical framework.Who knows if his comments . . . . Continue Reading »
Victor Davis Hanson on the American desire to have it both ways : Among elites there is almost a “Don’t touch or disturb that!” mantra. The law of the hothouse orchid reigns. Once our grubby ancestors created our infrastructure, we wish sometimes to ridicule and — use — it, . . . . Continue Reading »
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