N.Y. Times homepage has just announced. He was 82. Update: Here’s the Times ’ obit , which obviously had been in the can for a while. (Check out the fourth graf. And thanks to Ryan Anderson for pointing it out.) . . . . Continue Reading »
The feminists are killing the English language, says David Gelernter in the new edition of The Weekly Standard . The vitriol and bombast in his writing does not help his argument, but the main point behind it is sound: The intelligentsia has decreed that standard English requires gender-sentitive . . . . Continue Reading »
Anthony, you’re clearly on to something in noting that one of the key aspects of success, historically, with Best Picture winners is some modicum of box-office success. The great William Goldman summed it up best when he likened the Academy Awards to the American automotive industry. Imagine, . . . . Continue Reading »
And they’re not embryonic. The latest study showing the uses of adult stem cells: http://pubs.ama-assn.org/media/2008j/0226.dtl#2 A review of previously published research suggests that stem cells harvested from an adult’s blood or marrow may provide treatment benefit to select patients . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s not George Weigel’s Witness to Hope , but, at one-fourth the length, this book is a brief and inspiring reflection on the life of John Paul the Great. Written by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, A Life with Karol: My Forty-Year Journey with the Man Who Became Pope (Doubleday, 2008) . . . . Continue Reading »
With the exception of the Missouri media and perhaps, the New York Times, it is now clear that adult stem cells offer tremendous hope for treatments for a wide variety of ailments. The Journal of the American Medical Association reports some good news. From a video presentation: Adult stem cell . . . . Continue Reading »
Jonathan , it would seem that only some movies build an audience over time. Check out the Annie Hall entry at imdb.com: $38 million is pathetic . (Granted, Allen may be an exception to all rules: To date, Hannah and Her Sisters , one of the most overrated films, never mind Woody Allen films, of all . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t know when they launched it, but the New York Times has put a very nifty graphical representation of box office returns up on its website. If you’re looking to waste an hour—and get a sense of how longevity and opening weekend have changed in importance in the . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the title of an article by Heather Mac Donald in the current issue of City Journal , just made available on their website. It’s a painfully honest look at sex on the modern american university campus, with all the internal contradictions that it brings with it. Along the way, . . . . Continue Reading »
I am sick of animal rights apologists stating that their “direct actions” aren’t violent. In Santa Cruz, the home of a scientist was invaded by masked activists because the scientist uses animals in cancer research. And there was a physical assault of a family member: From the . . . . Continue Reading »
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