This is a disturbing turn of events. I noted to myself, but did not bring it up here, that a UK jury acquitted vandals who attacked a coal plant because it felt that fighting global warming justified their lawlessness.I bring it up now because it turns out that result was helped to be brought about . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, Stephen Barr was kind enough to explain to us how the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva could revolutionize the field of fundamental physics for the FT lay reader. While Barr’s article doesn’t go into what happens if we’re all sucked into black holes , or if the . . . . Continue Reading »
Those are good finds , Keith. If we leave aside the patently false assertions about book banning and evolution, and the misinterpretation of Palin’s remarks at her former church, we can focus on Doniger’s remarks on womanhood. Doniger articulates beliefs that many pro-choice people . . . . Continue Reading »
The Wall Street Journal has a collection of recent writings against Trig Palin, or more specifically against Sarah Palin for giving birth to Trig. I had suspected that many in the media felt threatened by a mother who would give birth to a son with Downs, but Salon’s Cintra Wilson takes the . . . . Continue Reading »
Last January we published Jason Byasee’s ” Not Your Father’s Pornography .” This week, another FT contributor, Ross Douthat, has a piece at the Atlantic (where he is a senior editor) asking whether using pornography is adultery . The piece catalogs the rise not only in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Gerson in this morning’s Washington Post takes on the Faith-Based Condescension in the intellectual and media elites’ criticism of Gov. Sarah Palin. “Palin is portrayed as a ‘theocrat’—a Muslim fundamentalist in lipstick. She has ‘a right to her . . . . Continue Reading »
From last week’s issue of the Times Literary Supplement , comes this amusing note on words and wordiness: “Each reissue of a dictionary is accompanied by a press release intended to alert journalists to new words and phrases. While some are likely to stick around . . . most will whither . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s Daily Article , Fr. Neuhaus offers us a fine reflection on the nature of religious freedom in America. By coincidence, Benedict XVI also reflects today on religious freedom (in France) as he begins his pilgrimage to Paris and Lourdes: Describing himself as a “sower of charity . . . . Continue Reading »
Howard Kurtz, who has the media beat for the Washington Post (and who I know; nice guy), says the media are getting angry about the McCain/Palin campaign. “Getting?” He says it is because the rucus made about pigs and lipstick. Baloney. As I have noted here at SHS, I think they have been . . . . Continue Reading »
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