My colleague Amanda Shaw has a nice review of Leszek KoÅ‚akowski’s philosophical primer Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? in the new July/August issue of Touchstone . The review isn’t available online, but do check it out if you find a copy of Touchstone . For more . . . . Continue Reading »
From the man who brought us great works of apologetics, refutations of relativism, and A Summa of the Summa , comes I Surf, Therefore I Am: A Philosophy of Surfing . Kreeft’s new book is released tomorrow, but here’s sneak peak at the introduction: Non-Introduction This book is for . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t put much stock in studies such as this, but since animal rights activists are ever about the purported unhealthful nature of meat, it may be that tofu increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. From the story: Eating high levels of some soy products - including tofu - may raise . . . . Continue Reading »
Regular readers of SHS know that I am critical of the trend to let “the scientists” decide what is ethical and what our public policies should be. That not only subverts science by mutating it into an ideology or social movement rather than a method (scientism), but is nuts because . . . . Continue Reading »
Sigh: The NHS continues to collapse and I continue to report—but even I don’t post all the stories, striving as I do to keep SHS varied and interesting. But this can’t be overlooked: The NHS has been accused of “conveyor belt” childbirths. From the story:Women are . . . . Continue Reading »
Jonathan Last rightly pointed out that I was overly optimistic about the new movie of Brideshead Revisited . In a long, meaty essay in the Independent , John Walsh examines the rumors over the film, what it was that Waugh himself was trying to communicate, and why the book is so highly esteemed. . . . . Continue Reading »
Mail delivery to Rome most be delayed. Otherwise our friend Carrie Gress would have asked Joseph Pearce about the hard-hitting review in the new issue of First Things of his new book on Shakespeare’s supposed Catholic faith. If you’re a print subscriber, the August/September issue of . . . . Continue Reading »
The Boston Globe is reporting how far Haleigh Poutre has progressed since bioethicists, social workers, and courts decided to dehydrate her to death. From the story:Haleigh, now 14, has stayed for more than two years at Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton, where she is described as a . . . . Continue Reading »
For more than ten years I have been telling anyone who will listen that unquestionably conscious cognitively disabled patients are being denied sustenance in every state in this country—so long as no family member objects (and eventually, if futile care theory takes hold, it will be even if . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the title of a new book by Paul DeHart, professor of political science at Lee University. In a wide-ranging discussion of analytic philosophy, metaphysical and moral realism, natural teleology, and moral theory, DeHart builds on the work of Hadley Arkes, J. Budziszewski, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
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