Anna Broadway on sex trafficking at the Super Bowl : When sports fans descend on New Orleans this weekend, they will encounter not just the city’s legendary hospitality, but very possibly opportunities to buy sex as well. If they do so, those men—johns, as they are often called—may . . . . Continue Reading »
Richard G. Stern, writer and educator, died on January 24, 2013 at age 84. John Wilson, editor of Books and Culture , wrote about Stern’s stories as part of a year-end fiction roundup in our December 2005 issue: The protagonist of Stern’s story . . . . Continue Reading »
Inaugural Saint Catherine of Siena Chair in Health Care Ethics Lecture Brother Ignatius Perkins, O.P. Saturday, February 2, 2013 1:00 p.m. Professional literature in health care ethics today frequently reports discussions on the multiple variables that threaten the human dignity and vulnerability . . . . Continue Reading »
Glory in Repetition Andre Yee, Desiring God What Was “Pre-Lent”? Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement The Mandate and “State Employers” Joseph Knippenberg, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Stick to the Tortellini, Mr. Bruni Michael Sean Winters, National Catholic Reporter The . . . . Continue Reading »
See if you can find a clip of Senator Ted Cruz taking apart Chuck Hagel today. Hagel came off incredibly shifty and dishonest, while Cruz showed that being rhetorically tough doesn’t mean being bombastic or rude. Something about Cruz’s calm, unforced courtesy made the . . . . Continue Reading »
Consider yourself warned, 1. It turns out we had slow economic growth last quarter. Actually worse than that. It appears that the economy actually shrank a bit - though the GDP estimates are approximations so we might actually have merely had very slow growth. I’ve read somewhere that a sharp . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s certainly possible that I’m wildly optimistic (it would not be the first time), but I am inclined to disagree with the recent suggestions of Joseph Knippenberg and Matthew Franck , based on recent (possible) changes in policy on sexual orientation, that the Boy Scouts of America . . . . Continue Reading »
So someone just send me this . It portrays me as the southern Stoic gentleman opposed to the Snopesy (or the money-grubbing populist) governor. But the opposition is overdrawn, of course. I don’t think anyone should major in gender studies or most stuff ending in studies either. Still, . . . . Continue Reading »
Your teenage “kids” are probably a lot more competent than they seem, according to psychologist Robert Epstein. But a raft of laws and regulations (compulsory education, labor restrictions, a separate juvenile justice system) and an ever-growing consumer sector have needlessly delayed . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend Anne Barbeau Gardiner writes in the last issue of the New Oxford Review about an article by Richard Dawkins, published in the English newspaper The Guardian in 2009, on the ramifications of creating a human-chimpanzee hybrid. It offers the usual anti-humanist dream. In the article , . . . . Continue Reading »
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