Across Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick’s Cathedral confront each other. Aesthetically, the contrast is endlessly fascinating—the soaring monoliths of NBC Studios and the glittering Gothic symmetry of the cross-topped towers both certainly please the eyes. But the standoff . . . . Continue Reading »
Pro-lifers pray for a reversal of Roe v. Wade , but Wesley Smith in today’s column asks, “what if the overturn comes from the other direction ?” Roe and its progeny cases, such as Planned Parenthood v. Casey , left room for pro-life advocates to deploy subversive . . . . Continue Reading »
So our friend Mickey Craig has sent me a link to John J. Miller’s nice overview of the life and thought of Harry Jaffa. The link is important, because it allows you to read the article without the cost of subscribing to THE NATIONAL REVIEW. Miller’s key claim: “Modern . . . . Continue Reading »
John Presnall really let us down. At the end of his great GATSBY post a few weeks ago, he indicated he was going to talk about MUD . I hadn’t heard of it, and the reference passed me by. John didn’t post any more on it, alas. And so now, a full month after its release, I just got around . . . . Continue Reading »
[caption id=”” align=”alignleft” width=”300”] Image from Patheos [/caption] The third largest religious affiliation in the United States is “None.” Roughly one-fifth of adult Americans tell surveyors that they have no religious affiliation at all. The . . . . Continue Reading »
The End of Reputation Jonathan R. Macey, American Interest What Have I Done? Stanley Hauerwas, ABC Religion & Ethics A Theory of Objects and Francophilia Robert Fay A Catholic Curiosity: The Life of Sir Jeffrey Hudson Rev. George W. Rutler, Crisis Evangelicals for Immigration—But Not the . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t think it is an especially good idea. . . . . Continue Reading »
Should there be a law against the NSA doing what it recently was revealed (not really for the first time) to have been doing? I confess I have not yet been convinced by the case against the collection of heaps of telephone call records only to be sifted in restricted FISA situations; what . . . . Continue Reading »
The Weekly Standard ‘s outstanding John McCormack asked Nancy Pelosi to identify “the moral difference between what Dr. Gosnell did to a baby born alive at 23 weeks and aborting her moments before birth?” (Pelosi opposes legislation that would ban the latter.) “As a . . . . Continue Reading »
reports: Oh boy, he’s having a baby. It’s hard to ignore these images of teenage boys sporting “pregnant” bellies and that’s exactly the intent of Chicago’s new eye-catching teen pregnancy prevention campaign. Launched last month, it aims to “spark conversations . . . . Continue Reading »
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