Before its demolition in 1993, Kowloon Walled City was the world’s most densely populated settlement. An ungoverned 6.5 acre tract on the edge of Hong Kong, it was home to 33,000 souls—-which comes out to an eye-popping population density of 3,249,000/sq mi. Kowloon Walled . . . . Continue Reading »
Wesley J. Smith on the Obama administration’s attempt to strip entrepreneurs of religious liberty : But a closer look at the government’s brief shows that it isn’t the act of incorporating that supposedly strips business owners of religious liberties in the marketplace, but . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve previously discussed a German judge forbidding the circumcision of minors. Now, a Norwegian non Jew/Muslim is telling those major world religions how to practice their faith. From the Haaretz story:Norway’s ombudsman for children’s rights has proposed that Jews and . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a post along those lines. I really do think Obama is “pwning” Romney so far. There’s no reason things can’t get better. But the broad historical-political trends and conerns of which Paul Rahe writes won’t get the job done without a lot of help from the . . . . Continue Reading »
Publisher Pulls David Barton Book on Jefferson Thomas Kidd, World Antonin Scalia and the ICC Wendy Wright, Turtle Bay and Beyond Losing Wonder, Bleaching the Real R. J. Snell, Anamnesis Romney Ad Hits Obama on Religious Freedom Alicia Mundy, Wall Street Journal The Sacred Rite of . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Wall Street Journal, ” The Postmodern President “, wherein our president’s postmodernism is defined thus, “he’s running the first postmodern Presidential campaign, now organized almost exclusively around allegations about his opponent that bear no relation to . . . . Continue Reading »
America’s Christians and Jews will need a good deal of help from theologians and historians (and perhaps a little less help from polemicists and boosters) if they are to better understand the world’s Muslims, a group that includes, of course, many of their own fellow-citizens. All that . . . . Continue Reading »
I suppose the Chick-Fil-A controversy has displaced sociologist Mark Regnerus’s controversial study as the battlefront of the gay marriage wars over the last few weeks, but the Regnerus study is worth revisiting here. His study, “How different are the adult children of parents who . . . . Continue Reading »
Monsignor Charles Pope has compiled a helpful and intriguing list of early Christian statements on the morality of abortion. Beginning with the Didache and ending in the seventh century, the sources (comprising both well-known individual writers and saints alongside more . . . . Continue Reading »
As Russell Nieli, a lecturer in politics at Princeton University points out , not all atheists are anti-religion. While University of Virginia professor of social psychology Jonathan Haidt, a resolved atheist, certainly does not advocate religion, and in fact laments the many harmful effects of . . . . Continue Reading »
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