Many Baby Boomers have noted that, from an intellectual point of view, the American national response to Islamic radicalism has been shockingly sluggish and uninspired, especially as compared with the vast mobilization of the Cold War. After the Sputnik embarrassment, for instance, the entire math . . . . Continue Reading »
Reuters brings us the latest in the ongoing quest to conflate the news so readers don’t have to: ” Evolution fine but no apology to Darwin: Vatican ” The Vatican said on Tuesday the theory of evolution was compatible with the Bible but planned no posthumous apology to Charles . . . . Continue Reading »
A subscriber writes to ask if I know any good churches in Amsterdam. The answer, unfortunately, is no. Does anyone else have an idea? Beautiful old churches to visit—likely, I imagine, to be Dutch Reformed? And a good church at which to attend a Catholic Mass? Email here if you have a . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend Thomas Farr—author of a major article on U.S. foreign policy and religious freedom in the next issue of First Things —writes to remind us of a conference at Georgetown University on October 10. The last in a series of conferences commemorating the 10th anniversary of the . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m reading A Brief History of the Normans by François Neveux. So far it’s quite informative and readable, but the author, apparently following current scholarly fashion, insists on referring to the medieval expeditions of the Northmen as “migrations.” For, you . . . . Continue Reading »
“I’m a liberal Democrat. And I do not favor same-sex marriage. Do those positions sound contradictory? To me, they fit together.” So writes David Blankenhorn, author of The Future of Marriage , in a recent LA Times editorial. The legalization of same-sex marriage, he writes, is . . . . Continue Reading »
The Times of London reports that scientists hope to be able to reduce the 40% misdiagnosis of PVS. From the story:Ten years ago, Kate went into a deep coma and was on a ventilator for several weeks. She had suffered severe brain inflammation after contracting a viral infection. When she came out of . . . . Continue Reading »
Sometimes I am just amazed. Hwang Woo suk is a charlatan. Readers of SHS and others will recall that, a few years ago, he created an international media sensation by claiming to have created the first cloned embryos from which he obtained patient specific, tailor made, embryonic stem cells. He was . . . . Continue Reading »
I can’t think of any more vivid example of the dramatic change in the scientific and political paradigms regarding stem cell research than James Thomson, the discoverer of human ESCs—moving away from embryonic stem cell field and into IPSCs. From the story: With their field riding a wave . . . . Continue Reading »
I was honored to appear on Friday the 19th of September before the Connecticut Council on Developmental Disabilities, as part of its series on “Life Threatening Public Policy.” My presentation is a bit lengthy—more than an hour—during which I focus on human exceptionalism, . . . . Continue Reading »
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