For those of us out there, economists and laypeople alike, who are left scratching our heads at the current economic crisis, here’s a new theory, based on the study of information networks, that might shed some light on the problem: “[The U.S.] market economy is nothing more than a . . . . Continue Reading »
In the Sunday bulletin at Church of Our Saviour there was a good quotation from Mother Teresa on the topic of abortion and human rights. I discovered that the quotation came from an amicus brief that she filed for the cases of Loce v. New Jersey and Krail et al. v. New Jersey in February 1994. The . . . . Continue Reading »
McCain is down in the national polls well beyond the margin of error with less than a month to go, so a change in strategy seems imperative. Our own Peter Lawler suggests , among other things, that McCain start focusing on the blank check an Obama victory would be to a very unpopular and very . . . . Continue Reading »
As I write these words, the stock markets around the world are tanking in the wake of a nearly trillion dollar bailout that the experts designed to prevent this very collapse. Oops.Financial issues are not what we do here, but I think there is an aspect of the financial crisis . . . . Continue Reading »
The next time a surgeon accidentally leaves a sponge inside a patient or a nurse administers the wrong type of blood in a transfusion, Medicare and the taxpayer will no longer pay to clean up the mess: Medicare, the government insurance program for the elderly and disabled, will stop paying . . . . Continue Reading »
A little Rowan Atkinson for your Monday morning: . . . . Continue Reading »
In an article “Iran’s ‘Bob Dylan’ Under Fire Over Qu’ran Song,” Radio Farda reports that Mohsen Namjoo, Iran’s most popular, and controversial, musician, has provoked the wrath of “Qu’ran experts and religious figures” who say . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Confabulum, Conor Friedersdorf reminds us to remind ourselves of how lucky we are. While I’m always up for some meta-gratitude, I was more immediately reminded of Daniel Larison’s brilliant post from a while back about theodicy and "the pornography of compassion": . . . . Continue Reading »
As a card-carrying member of the "bitter block", I have a number of bones to pick with an intellectual trend on the left that I like to call the "psychologization of belief." I’ll define it as a rhetorical move which dismisses opposing claims by relegating to the status of . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, this could be very interesting—or awful. Apparently CBS has a new series starting next week called The Eleventh Hour. And it seems to cover many of the issues we discuss here at SHS. From the PR Internet site: Humankind has survived devastation: Famine. Plague. Predators. Insects. . . . . Continue Reading »
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