Apropos my On the Square column today, a report notes that more people die from suicide in the USA than from car crashes. From the Healthday story:More Americans now commit suicide than die in car crashes, making suicide the leading cause of injury deaths, according to a new study... . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is a video from the University of Pennsylvania’s Stephanos Bibas on his new book, The Machinery of Criminal Justice , which I am currently reading for a review and can already recommend. Bibas recently wrote for First Things on what made Chuck Colson “the . . . . Continue Reading »
Wesley J. Smith on invisible Suicide Prevention Day : When I was practicing law from the mid-1970s into the 1980s, there was tremendous emphasis given in the popular media and within the bar association to the cause of suicide prevention. Hotlines proliferated, anti-suicide billboards were . . . . Continue Reading »
Esteemed scholar Francis Watson of Durham University suspects the so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife , on which I wrote yesterday , might ultimately prove a forgery. He’s written a brief summary (pdf) of a longer piece (pdf) explaining his suspicions. From the summary: The papyrus fragment . . . . Continue Reading »
My biweekly On the Square today deals with the wave of suicide prevention. I partly blame the assisted suicide movement and the suicide prevention community’s failure to grapple with the pro advocacy of the “death with dignity” crowd.I begin by noting that suicide prevention seems . . . . Continue Reading »
I leave it to Leroy Huizenga to give a more in-depth, scholarly reaction to Harvard professor Karen King’s newly discovered “fragment.” His analysis focuses on the newly-discovered document in the context of its time period, specifically its relationship to other Gnostic . . . . Continue Reading »
Joel Osteen: America’s Cheerful Waffler Kristin Rudolph, Juicy Ecumenism The Consequences of Finn’s Conviction Michelle Martin, Our Sunday Visitor Roger Scruton and the Right Caroline Crampton, New Statesman Locke, Hume, and Acquiring Property Samuel Goldman, . . . . Continue Reading »
even as Obama’s RCP average job approval rating gets up near 50%, 1. The economic fundamentals are still pretty bad. Median income is still down. The unemployment rate is both high and stagnant. This is the raw material for a campaign message. What Romney needs . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s probably a bit of wishful thinking in John Dickerson’s The Coming War Within the Republican Party , arguing that a lot of major conservative voices are already assuming Romney will lose the election, as shown by their jumping in to be the first ones to explain why and . . . . Continue Reading »
Eboo Patel argues that colleges and universities should begin paying attention to religious diversity. I want to agree with him, but the fine print makes it almost impossible. What if campuses took religious diversity as seriously as they took race? What if recruiting a religiously diverse . . . . Continue Reading »
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