If any of you miss the writings of our former managing editor, Anthony Sacramone, or enjoyed his previous career as Luther at the Movies, rejoice and be glad. Anthony will continue to write for us, but now has his own blog as well. Strange Herring is like a funnier, less serious First Things , so . . . . Continue Reading »
The Times of London has a troubling story today on Hindu extremists in the Indian province of Orissa who are offering rewards to those who kill Christians: Extremist Hindu groups offered money, food, and alcohol to mobs to kill Christians and destroy their homes, according to Christian aid workers . . . . Continue Reading »
Barack Obama has nominated Tom Daschle, the former senator from South Dakota, to be the secretary of health and human services . That brings another pro-choice Catholic into not only the new administration, but the post which will articulate executive policy on health care and the life questions. . . . . Continue Reading »
Rod quotes David Rieff, who writes in personally, and reflects: consumerism is Promethean knowledge and [ . . . ] the only alternative to it is economic catastrophe —- something only the most convinced of misanthropes could possibly welcome. Is he correct? Is the only alternative to being . . . . Continue Reading »
The new Obama Administration is going to push full speed ahead pouring money into ESCR—and I worry, human cloning research. This concern is heightened by the appointment of Alta Charo to the transition team. I know Alta, and we get along fine personally. But we clash. (She once called me a . . . . Continue Reading »
Alex Schedenberg, the head of Canada’s Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, has a very good piece about the passage of I 1000 in today’s Calgary Herald. He points out the truth the media generally refuse to report, that Oregon’s guidelines are often violated and that most assisted . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s some cool news for all the photo lovers out there. Life Magazine and Google have announced that the internet company plans to scan and place all of the 10 million images in Life ‘s archives online and make them available for free. Two million images from the archive, some dating . . . . Continue Reading »
California’s Proposition 8, which defines marriage as the union between one man and one woman, is under a barrage of protest and legal scrutiny. As I mentioned earlier this week, it will likely come before the state Supreme Court, who will rule on its constitutionality. But, you might object, . . . . Continue Reading »
Comment Visions, an international on-line debate forum, asked my view on the following question: Biotechnology has been hailed as the wonder industry of the 21st Century, but are we capable of controlling it?Here is my reply:Biotechnology offers tremendous promise and peril. The peril arises, in my . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’re looking for an author who can help you argue about the origins of human life and the beginning of personhood, Maureen Condic is very good. She’s written a number of articles in First Things on the beginning of human life and stem cells ( here , here , and here , to name but . . . . Continue Reading »
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