“Think Being a Teen Parent Won’t Cost You?” beg the NYC subways ads . When the puffy-eyed girl says, “Honestly Mom . . . chances are he won’t stay with you. What happens to me?” most New Yorkers will not take it as a plea for abstinence. We hear from the . . . . Continue Reading »
“Senator [Rand] Paul’s tax plan has a problem for which there is no inoculation,” says Pete Spiliakos in today’s column . Paul’s flat tax proposal would cut taxes on high earners while raising taxes on middle-class families. Using the Tax Policy Center’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Celibacy of homosexuals can be compared to the celibacy of “women who knew they would never be able to marry because the lives of too many of their country’s men had been claimed by the Second World War,” says Aaron Taylor in today’s column . The divine call is discerned in . . . . Continue Reading »
reports: Wineries are coming out loud and proud in their support of gay marriage. They’re putting it right on the label. “Little by little, we’re breaking down the barrier,” says Gary Saperstein of Out in the Vineyard, an events and tour company based in Sonoma wine country . . . . Continue Reading »
We give ourselves to BIG DATA with every trackable transaction and communication. ” Corporate competition to accumulate information about consumers is intensifying even as concerns about government surveillance grow, pushing down the market price for intimate personal details to fractions of . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t have time to discuss Yuval’s Bradley talk right now. Let me just say it’s a classy, forthright, and personal effort to strike the balance between gratitude and change we can believe in. Nothing’s more important than the perpetuation of our personal institutions . . . . Continue Reading »
Noted philosopher of the mind Colin McGinn is resigning from the University of Miami : Mr. McGinn . . . denies allegations that he behaved improperly. Those allegations were lodged by a female graduate student who has said that the professor sent her a series of sexually explicit e-mail and text . . . . Continue Reading »
Idealism and Blindness Leon Wieseltier, New Republic The Great Migration of the Church in This Land Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington Happy Birthday, Charles Kingsley Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, OUP Blog Our Francis, Too Timothy George, Christianity Today Easter in a Soviet Camp . . . . Continue Reading »
ethical and political thoughts here . . . . . Continue Reading »
The University Bookman has put forth a summer reading list which includes David Mills’ review of What Happened to Sophie Wilder Even though this book tells of a young woman’s conversion to Catholicism, a subject of natural interest to a convert, it is not a book I would have read, . . . . Continue Reading »
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