1. The administration’s gyrations on the murder of Libyan ambassador Stevens are disgusting. There was a well coordinated terrorist attack on American interests and personnel. There seems to have been a series of intelligence failures that left our ambassador exposed. That is bad enough, but . . . . Continue Reading »
Transhumanists keep looking for ways to radically extend their lives. I keep telling them it is a fool’s errand, but they persist. So, in the spirit of comity, I present a report in the Telegraph that could show male transhumanists now to gain a few extra decades. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
I read this survey report with some interest over the weekend. Entitling the report “Beyond Guns and God,” the authors clearly want us to cease clinging bitterly to our caricatures about the white working class. To that end, they “challenge five myths” about their subject. . . . . Continue Reading »
“This fuzziness about the origins of our nationhood is one of the things that distinguishes us as Canadians from our American cousins.”How do American and Canadian national mythologies differ? Read here to find . . . . Continue Reading »
Especially in a time like ours, in the midst of a culture of death, it is all the more tragic when an expecting mother, an expecting family really, joyfully awaits the life of their child that does not make it to term. When so many lives are “unwanted,” why would God take away one that . . . . Continue Reading »
I do not hesitate to criticize President Obama—-severely—-not only for what I regard as his misbegotten policies, but also for his personal delinquencies (such as saying things that he knows are not true). I must in candor say, however, that I believe he is getting something of a bum . . . . Continue Reading »
Canonist Ed Peters corrals a series of objections to the prospect of female Catholic deacons at his blog, In the Light of the Law . Those who follow internal Catholic theological debates will surely be aware of how this concept is occasionally raised and slyly framed in varying ways: . . . . Continue Reading »
I have noted often that creating the abortion license also led to a perceived fundamental right to not only have a baby, but the baby one wants. And some have said I was nuts, but can there be any real doubt that abortion helped turn procreation into a consumer . . . . Continue Reading »
William Doino Jr. on Dorothy Day’s dynamic orthodoxy: Dorothy’s goodness of heart and her “radical idealism,” as Father Kennedy calls it, achieved immense things, but also caused her to occasionally lose her footing. Though most of her social views were soundly rooted in the . . . . Continue Reading »
This is soooo unsurprising: Wathdog David Jensen, author of the stellar California Stem Cell Report blog, discloses that California Institute of Regenerative Medicine has doled over a billion of Californians’ borrowed money to recipients affiated with its directors. . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
