Sadly, our friend Thomas M. Disch has passed away , and even more sadly, apparently by his own hand on the Fourth of July. The man could do anything involving words. He wrote award-winning science fiction such as Camp Concentration and (my favorite) the bleak volume The Genocides . He wrote a . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s Wall Street Journal , Dorothy Rabinowitz examines the hypersensitivity to race that recently manifested itself on Purdue’s campus and notes that it’s headed into the politcal arena. . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a nice article about the new Bioethics Institute and Chair at Franciscan University. Patrick Lee, a collegue of mine at the Witherspoon Institute , is doing great work at Franciscan. . . . . Continue Reading »
What began as a little joke around the office has become a grass-roots political movement online. Richard John Neuhaus in 2008. News Channel 3 explains: http://www.news3online.com/index.php?code=603a543g92Is08HvrocI . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers of SHS will recall when the HPV vaccine first came out and with it, a great political push made by business interests and those of a certain cultural persuasion that expected (wanted?) teenage girls to be sexually active to require all girls to receive the vaccine. That effort stalled, and . . . . Continue Reading »
I have heard rumors of stories like this from my contacts in the UK, but have not posted on it because that is what they were: Rumors. But now, the BBC has reported that a care facility might have tried to starve an elderly woman to save money. From the story: Ellen Westwood, 88, was in . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times reports an interesting new find in Jerusalem: “A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus . . . may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days.” According to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s an interesting essay on the nineteenth-century Victorian architect Augustus Pugin, one of the leading champions of the Gothic revival—a man who thought Europe’s cathedrals were the world’s greatest architectural achievement, precisely because the point of pointed . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t mean to be contrarian, but I suspect that the remake of Brideshead Revisited which Nathaniel mentions may not be as promising as he thinks. I wrote a little bit about the outrageously silly trailer : The new adaptation seems remarkable mostly because Emma Thompson’s Lady . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an interesting analysis on a Nature blog on how the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine is spending money taken out of the hides of Californians. In addition to spending hundreds of millions of borrowed taxpayer dollars to build the plushest buildings, designed by the world’s . . . . Continue Reading »
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