I think it’s understandable for Joseph to be hungry for more —but, as FT’s Denise Vaccaro notes, the one we really need to hear from on abortion is the head of this ticket John McCain. He’s the one who would be leading this country and nominating justices to the Supreme . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, we posted an interview with First Things editor Joseph Bottum on his article “The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline.” Since that was such a hit, we’ve decided to add more interviews for your listening pleasure. R. R. Reno, . . . . Continue Reading »
I have to disagree , Joseph. Sarah Palin didn’t talk about abortion , and I don’t think she needed to. And it’s not just because everybody already knows her pro-life position (thanks, if nothing else, to the media’s harrumphing on that count), nor was it because she . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Democratic convention, Bill Clinton declaimed that the world is more impressed “by the power of America’s example than by the example of America’s power.” At the Republican convention, Sarah Palin declared, “In politics, there are some candidates who use change . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech seems to have been rapturously received among conservatives. So much so, that you don’t have to go far to find sneering comments about Palin’s delivery of “red meat” to the conservative base. Here’s the curious thing, though: . . . . Continue Reading »
In yesterday’s daily article , R.R. Reno describes Simon Critchley’s treatment of death as typically postmodern posturing. It projects a “self-congratulating honesty that protests against old hypocrisies and evasions—all in close conjunction with a winking lack of seriousness . . . . Continue Reading »
I have written from time to time about the drive within some in the organ transplantation and bioethics communities to do away with the dead donor rule in order to permit patients to be killed for their organs. I expand on that in this article published in the Center for Bioethics newsletter. From . . . . Continue Reading »
This past August, the world watched Michael Phelps become the greatest Olympian of all time, securing for himself eight gold medals and a place in the record books for most all-time gold medals and most gold medals in a single Olympics. It appears , however, that Phelps is not content with mere . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Shea does a nice job showing the left’s visceral hatred and fear of everything Sarah Palin stands for. It’s not what she thinks, but who she is. I noted this the other night at a barbecue with a friend from college and some of the folks she’d met in her year in New York. When . . . . Continue Reading »
Who says the animosity of the Culture Wars has made it impossible for us to find common ground? As “Diogenes” at Catholic World News observes , publications like the New York Times and the Boston Globe have lately become intensely worried about teenage pregnancy and even nervous about . . . . Continue Reading »
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