When it comes to Ayn Rand, I agree with David Bentley Hart’s magisterial condemnation from our March 2011 issue: Ayn Rand always provokes a rather extravagant reaction from me, and probably for purely ideological reasons. For instance, I like the Sermon on the Mount. She regarded its . . . . Continue Reading »
We don’t know what factors lead to a propensity for homosexuality. (Frankly, I don’t think any “one” thing, but that’s an unexpert opinion.) But some believe we will discover a “gay” gene. If so, that has very real eugenic . . . . Continue Reading »
What’s scarier? Watching your child get a broken leg or a broken heart? Hearing his groans as he falls off the monkey bars or out of the job market? While the new Youtube video of an Ohio couple’s “horrifyingly awesome” backyard rollercoaster is no doubt spurring some . . . . Continue Reading »
Rachel Marie Stone’s review of a new book on breasts for Books and Culture points to some troubling environmental data about BPA, which appears in most plastic products: The mammary gland is “the most sensitive organ to known harmful industrial chemicals.” Substances like . . . . Continue Reading »
A couple of weeks back, Robert George delivered a First Thoughts post exhorting Catholics to take more seriously the moral hazards involved in the use of drones in war. Nicholas Hahn of Real Clear Religion has taken him up on that and, in the process, to task. George and Hahn are . . . . Continue Reading »
Meet the “New New Atheists” Christopher R. Beha, Harper’s Paul Ryan, Joe Biden, and False Equivalence Carson Holloway, Catholic Vote Is Israel Succumbing to Jewish Fundamentalism? A Debate Avraham Burg and Daniel Gordis, The Economist Roger Kimball and the Work of Cultural . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan Salam points us to a National Journa l article about how the Democrats have used the Ryan budget to their political advantage. The most important case mentioned in the article was an upstate New York Republican-leaning district where a Democrat won by attacking the Medicare cuts in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Every once in a while I like to check in on the machinations of the transhumanists and their immorality materialist eschatology. I oppose transhumanist theory because of its inherently eugenic premises and proposals, it’s anti human exceptionalism, and most especially, its presumption of . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Ryan made a strong case against the Obama economy without coming across as either mean spirited or self-interested. Ryan also did a good job of framing the election as a referendum against crony capitalism and corporate welfare. It’s not for nothing that this guy is a . . . . Continue Reading »
The writer of the winsomely named The Snug of the Pub blog offers his thoughts on the conservative media’s framing of Romney’s VP selection . A lot of commentators want a choice, like Paul Ryan, that “would force this election to be about ‘a big choice’ or . . . . Continue Reading »
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