Well I couldn’t resist (ineptly) posting that photo of the reef-rock that China and the Philippines both claim, but doing so perhaps made the topic seem more humorous than it really is. Bottom line 1: you gotta watch China on every geo-strategic front, and the “spontaneous” . . . . Continue Reading »
Last Friday, in my blog post Are the Mormons on to Something? I linked to a Gospel Coalition article on why Mormons are beating evangelicals in church growth . I might add that Mormons, along with southerners, have yet another strength we might add to the list. Philanthropy ranks the . . . . Continue Reading »
Declining rates of circumcision could cost society big time when the boy babies become men and risk STDs from engaging in risky activities. From the LA Times story:Declining rates of circumcision among infants will translate into billions of dollars of unnecessary medical costs in the U.S. as . . . . Continue Reading »
Jonathan Chait has a terrific piece on how the entertainment media shapes political opinion especially among then young. Anybody interested in the long-term trajectory of politics should read it. Conservatives should especially read it. It helps explain why youth unemployment and underemployment is . . . . Continue Reading »
Ian Bogost is fed up with TED talks—-the techno-utopian Chautauqua retread—-and spent fifteen minutes writing a strangely convincing parody: I’m here to talk to you about the biggest challenge facing upper-class Western society: ideas, and how to understand them. What is an idea? . . . . Continue Reading »
Responding to a recent article in Nature on the psychology of climate change, The Guardian ‘s Andrew Brown argues that combatting global warming will require something beyond carbon taxes, recycling programs, and technological innovation: There may be ways of fixing [the current . . . . Continue Reading »
And its implications for NYC public policy . . . . . Continue Reading »
Delivered under sponsorship of the King’s College on March 30, 2012 at Calvary-St. George’s Episcopal Church, New York, New York. . . . . Continue Reading »
A lighter piece: Can strong faith make you more humorous? Though I disagree with Kerry Trotter about her (admittedly biased) speculation that perhaps Catholics understand humor best of all because they have “suffered better than anyone,” her example of St. Lawrence does shed light on a . . . . Continue Reading »
It looks like the Democratic Party’s leadership has decided to make the Party’s fierce commitment to protecting abortion against meaningful legal restrictions of any kind and extending its availability a, if not the , central theme of its national convention . I’ll . . . . Continue Reading »
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