After a tiresome election season and an even longer season of slacking off spiritually, I thirst for Advent as ardently as the nation’s retail sector thirsted for the recent anti-holiday known as Black Friday. In addition to breaking out my favorite Advent music (like the beautiful new . . . . Continue Reading »
A group calling itself ” Africa for Norway ” has created a brilliant sendup of the way Western efforts to aid the Global South tend to suggest that every solution to Africa’s problem will come from the outside—-specifically, from the largesse and good intentions of . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia is ready to start the apocalypse : Experiencing unprecedented economic, spiritual, and constitutional challenges, Americans re-elected both a president of questionable competence and many of the same artless, priorities-challenged politicians who have already proved themselves . . . . Continue Reading »
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be lawyers, as Willie Nelson might have sung. At least if the mamas want their children to have jobs when they graduate and not just a huge debt. Many law schools have apparently not been scrupulous in keeping their student bodies at a level . . . . Continue Reading »
That Lena Dunham commercial might have made a real contribution to enhancing the president’s turnout, for all I know. Certainly it was consistent with the Democratic convention’s insistent appeal to women’s rights, especially the rights of single women. But there’s at least one . . . . Continue Reading »
Catholics United v. Knights of Columbus Kieran Raval, Institute on Religion & Democracy Does Theism Imply Divine Perfection? Yoram Hazony, New York Times/The Stone Catholic Priests Pushed to Become Better Preachers Tim Townsend, Washington Post/On Faith Camus’ Predictions Live, But Not . . . . Continue Reading »
Cheering up, a little, with Bill McGurn: ” How Obama’s ‘Life of Julia’ Prevailed; Conservatives don’t need to compromise their values. They need to do a better job of selling .” Many of my friends truly seem to believe that 47% of the US population wants to . . . . Continue Reading »
reports: Dr. Ernest Zeringue was looking for a niche in the cutthroat industry of fertility treatments. He seized on price, a huge obstacle for many patients, and in late 2010 began advertising a deal at his Davis, Calif., clinic unheard of anywhere else: Pregnancy for $9,800 or your money back. . . . . Continue Reading »
Having studied at Princeton, Duke, and Frankfurt, and having taught for several years at Wheaton College, I read Rusty Reno’s OTS piece today with great interest. I’d also want to second a comment calling for more attention to Wheaton and Trinity. Wheaton’s young doctoral program . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t know where to begin. Let’s start with where McCain says: As far as young women are concerned, absolutely, I don’t think anybody like me — I can state my position on abortion but, other than that, leave the issue alone, when we are in the kind of economic . . . . Continue Reading »
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