A while ago a friend recommended Whit Stillman’s movie Metropolitan to me, and I figured that, as a young person who had intellectual conversations with groups of friends in New York, I would find it especially resonant with my life in the city. The young people I’ve met in New York are . . . . Continue Reading »
In a review in Reason magazine, Ronald Bailey trashes Ben Stein’s anti-Darwinist documentary, Expelled —and, by all accounts, with some justification. I haven’t seen the film, but it doesn’t sound persuasive. Still, this passage from Bailey caught my eye: In the film, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Nathaniel , the Mark Steyn case is getting the bulk of the conservative media attention (since he writes for National Review ), but don’t overlook this other Canadian Human Rights Case. Tony Perkins, in his FRC e-mail update, writes: David Ben Gurion, the first Israeli Prime Minister, once . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve mentioned the Mark Steyn case in the past, but today Rich Lowry posted an update on Real Clear Politics on its progress. For those who haven’t heard, our neighbors to the north have a system of Human Rights Commissions in which you can lodge a complaint against people who say . . . . Continue Reading »
Over the weekend, the Washington Post carried a piece about Washington’s National Cathedral. It seems that a few years ago the cathedral was given a $7 million bequest. The dean used the funds to expand all sorts of services, but now the money has run out, and new funding never materialized . . . . Continue Reading »
While I liked Rick’s comments on the Mirror of Justice site, I was a little confused by Rob Vischer’s recent post . He comments on a Boston Globe article on recent pushes by academics to have the law recognize friendships: The article does not focus on the SSM debate, but this issue . . . . Continue Reading »
The discussions seem endless these days, but Rick Garnett’s comments on Doug Kmiec’s latest article are worth reading. A taste: That said, Doug’s column goes off course in a few places, I think. He writes: Given that abortion is an intrinsic evil without justification, thinking . . . . Continue Reading »
As regular readers of SHS know, I am appalled by the terroristic assault on intellectual freedom and the rule of law by animal rights thugs against medical researchers. Delusionally thinking themselves akin to Gandhi and Martin Luther King, these nihilists commit arson, burglary, theft, blackmail, . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend, the law professor Stephen Bainbridge, posts a note about having an article accepted—and then rejected—by a law-review journal. He ends with an observation that it sure looks like he had a contract with the journal—and, lawyers being lawyers, the legal commentators on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Hit this link to view a video presentation is by Calla Papademus, a young Stanford student who donated her eggs for a fertility treatment and suffered some serious health consequences. From an earlier story about her ordeal: For eight weeks last fall, Calla Papademas, a 22-year-old Stanford . . . . Continue Reading »
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