So a Book TV-type chat show for the Web is scheduled to debut, called Titlepage. When I first saw the headline and who the host was going to be, I thought maybe the site was going to serve as an auction block for new bookspublishers read the first chapter on their laptops and ask to see more, . . . . Continue Reading »
More of this please. California regulators have hit Pacificare with a huge fine. From the story:After an unprecedented eight-month joint state probe triggered by hundreds of complaints, state health insurance regulators Tuesday slapped the PacifiCare unit of UnitedHealthcare with a record $3.5 . . . . Continue Reading »
As Rudy Giuliani goes gentle into that good night , it’s worth remembering what he was taken to represent, once upon a time. Or, at least, what Frank Rich told us he represented in the October 28, 2007, issue of the New York Times . At that moment, Giuliani was on the top of all the polls, . . . . Continue Reading »
Every three years, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship , one of the nation’s largest evangelical student groups and part of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), hosts a missions conference called Urbana . The name came from the long-time host campus of the University of . . . . Continue Reading »
Newsman Mike Wallace is recovering from a triple bypass surgery. Why is this a matter of interest to SHS other than to wish him well? Because under age-dictated health care rationing of the kind practiced in the UK and urged upon us by some very notable bioethicists here in America, Wallace would . . . . Continue Reading »
The Vatican has posted the Pope’s Message for Lent . This year he stresses the spiritual discipline of almsgiving along with the principle of the universal destination of earthly goods. There’s this: Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy: rather it is a concrete . . . . Continue Reading »
In the Netherlands, doctors sometimes euthanize babies born with spina bifida. There (and here), doctors sometimes refuse to treat them so that they will die. But now, a new journal article calls expose these lethal actions and non actions as the bigotry (my term) that they are. Writing in Childs . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week friends from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School sent me an article in the Yale Daily News that covered the Reproductive Rights Action League at Yale (RALY) and the Yale Medical Students for Choice commemoration of Roe v. Wade . While other students were participating in the March . . . . Continue Reading »
In Reply to A. Dulles, S.J. There once was a poet named Keats Whom the would-be lampoonist defeats. Even Cardinal Dulles, Despite his keen skull, is Confusing Keats’ iamb for cleats. . . . . Continue Reading »