I offer some thoughts in this morning’s Wall Street Journal on the legacy of “test tube baby” pioneer Sir Robert Edwards, who died this week: Sir Robert Edwards, the Nobel Prize-winning British “test tube baby” pioneer who died last week at age 87, devoted . . . . Continue Reading »
Honestly, is it so hard to understand Kermit Gosnell? If respectable and influential people—-cultural and political leaders—-spend decades trying to persuade the public that “it’s not really a baby, it just looks like a baby,” are we shocked—- shocked . . . . Continue Reading »
In his most recent blog post , Mark Tooley laments what he sees as the tendency of “evangelical elites” to “launch as a crusade any pressing cause of the day without a strong sense of spiritual or political priority.” It’s worth the effort to reconstruct Tooley’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Pete Spiliakos suggests a new agenda for right-leaning super PACs : Explain how conservative ideas could work to cut taxes on working families while encouraging investment. Explain the radicalism of the Democratic party’s abortion agenda, defend the humanity of the late-term . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, media was buzzing with news that Canadian music icon Rita MacNeil had passed away after complications following surgery. She was, as The Canadian Press put it , “a singer-songwriter from small-town Canada whose powerful voice explored genres from country, to folk, to gospel.” . . . . Continue Reading »
In his Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church’s Debate on Same-Sex Relationships , James Brownson critiques the idea that the “image of God” in humanity includes sexual difference: Throughout much of Christian history, the notion that gender differentiation is part of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Right-leaning outside groups would do better to spend more of their hundreds of millions of dollars on making conservative ideas popular rather than acting as partners to (often cynical) Republican candidates. . . . . Continue Reading »
Xerxes and the Jewish Diaspora Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon, Preachers’ Institute Tongue Tied Br. Tomás Martín Rosado O.P., Dominicana Atheist Church: An Exercise in Mimicry Anthony Sacramone, Strange Herring Past Perfect Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Democracy Evelyn Waugh, . . . . Continue Reading »
Interfaith marriage is skyrocketing in contemporary America. A generation ago, around 15 percent of Americans married outside their faith, which probably mostly meant Catholics marrying Protestants. Now, according to Naomi Schaefer Riley, the rate is 42 percent. As Americans continue to delay . . . . Continue Reading »
So Richard Reinsch has a good article on the limits of James Madison’s religious thought—as expressed in the overrated MEMORIAL AND REMONSTRANCE. There the duty each of us has to our Creator is private or merely “conscientious.” It’s a limit to government, to be sure. . . . . Continue Reading »
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