China is a true tyranny. And now, it has ordered a Muslim woman to abort her viable fetus or face the loss of her home. From the story: Chinese authorities have ordered Arzigul Tursun, who is 26 weeks pregnant, to abort her unborn child because she has two other children. She is under watch at the . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at The American Scene, Alan Jacobs does the public service of reminding us that those medieval Christians didn’t put Earth at the center of the universe because they were arrogant: The center of the medieval cosmos is not the most important place, but the stillest and deadest place, the . . . . Continue Reading »
The following documents are useful in clarifying the truth of what Father Jay Scott Newman of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenville, South Carolina, said in the aftermath of the November 4 election about conscience, voting, material cooperation with intrinsic evil, repentance, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
I have a piece in the current Weekly Standard about Ecuador granting “rights” to nature. (I wrote this several weeks ago, but for obvious reasons having to do with all of the political news lately, it was delayed until now.) From my column:Rights, properly understood, are moral . . . . Continue Reading »
It wasn’t easy, a thicket of opposition, sometimes very threatening, from animal rights activists, impeded progress, but the new Oxford animal research center has finally opened. From the story on BBC:Four years ago, Cambridge University cancelled plans for a primate research centre, because . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s easy for me to choose my friends: My conversation style involves blurting out bizarre and enigmatic sentences, and anyone with the patience to put up with it is a friend of mine. (Call it "argument by spaghetti": throw everything against the wall and see what sticks.) Case in . . . . Continue Reading »
Eve Tushnet has an occasional series called "Things I Know But Cannot Prove," a list that every man should compile for himself in spare moments, both to keep track of what he knows—I, for one, tend to forget—and keep a little humility about what he can and can’t prove. . . . . Continue Reading »
If I read him correctly, President-elect Obama seeks to blur the ethnic-cultural aspect of the individual to the point where we can, as a nation, achieve true "diversity," a oneness of purpose that will unite America with the people of the world in brotherhood and, no doubt, . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently there being soul in cyberspace means that there’s adultery and divorce in cyberspace as well: "I went mad — I was so hurt. I just couldn’t believe what he’d done," Taylor told the Western Morning News. "It may have started online, but it existed . . . . Continue Reading »
” Life Is Short. Have an Affair. ” So says an ad campaign publicizing an online adultery-facilitation service. If you’re looking for a pithy expression of the hedonistic nihilism threatening to dominate our post-Christian age, it’s hard to improve on that tagline. Then . . . . Continue Reading »
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