Losing power last night in lower Manhattan made it necessary to light all my candles, which gave me occasion to reflect on the wonderful work done by bees. For while paraffin is now more common in making candles, beeswax is still preferred by some, including the Roman church, in which it is . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Doran wonders what will become of the Middle East’s Christians : In the fall of 2010, a few months before revolution swept the Muslim world, I happened to be in Yemen for work. The trip coincided with the start of the Eid holiday, which provided ample free time to see much of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas Friedman’s latest column in the New York Times is a perfect specimen of what Helen Alvaré has termed “the lazy slander of the pro-life cause.” While Friedman’s editors have corrected his laughable biological error since the column’s . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So Romney is still up by .8% in the RCP head-to-head, but Obama’s average job approval has rebounded to 49.7% from its weekend low of around 48%. So we’re back to wondering if the remaining undecideds will break in the direction of the challenger or the direction of the . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times , in a web-only column, features a deconstruction of arguments for doctor-assisted suicide (“myths,” the author calls them), the legality of which is on the ballot in Massachusetts next week. Of particular interest is this statistic, which ought to tamp down the . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friends at The Imaginative Conservative have unearthed a 1998 essay by the late Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, in which she ponders the effects of feminism (both good and bad) on the family. “On the positive side of the ledger,” Fox-Genovese writes, “women’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Karen Walter Goodwin offers a brief review of Colleen Carroll Campbell’s book My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir , to be released on Tuesday, in which she “expresses dissatisfaction with ‘pat answers offered by both secular feminists and their anti-feminist . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The polls today a VERY slight movement back toward Obama and a TIE overall by any reasonable reading. Meanwhile, it’s true enough that Romney has hope in all the battleground states, but he’s slightly behind in most of them. Intrade remains astute in the suggestion that Obama has . . . . Continue Reading »
R.R. Reno on Jacques Barzun and the lexicon of pussyfooting : The educational establishment attracts a great deal of Barzun’s icy criticism. Anyone who thinks multicultural education is a recent perversion should read his chapters on education. He states a plain fact that remains true: Those . . . . Continue Reading »
Kate Pitrone at Postmodern Conservative criticizes the Obama for America campaign’s creepy “Future Children Project” ad in a post provocatively titled ” Child Abuse .” Jonah Goldberg makes a similar judgment , writing that the ad constitutes “soft . . . . Continue Reading »
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