Victorian Parables: Extravagant Reversals Richard Gibson, Books & Culture Animating Academic Discussions with Faith, Hope, Love Peter David Gross, The Scriptorium In Rare Move, University Stripped of ‘Catholic’ Title David Kerr, Catholic News Agency Spectacle, Violence, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, RationalWiki—the “rationalists’” answer to Wikipedia, I guess, has sniffed out human exceptionalism and irrationally label it “creationism.” From the entry:The angle the ‘Toot uses for this one is to publish a newsletter called The Human . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan Salam cites Luis Zingales’s suggestion that Romney run as a “pro-market populist.” Romney could run as a businessman for greater fairness and broadly rising living standards and against entrenched business interests that have allied with the . . . . Continue Reading »
aObamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board is authoritarian. It does not “advise,” it imposes on cost cutting for Medicare—even over a presidential veto. Moreover, it’s imposed “advice” is also immune from judicial review. Frankly, . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday I blogged here about an ABC report of a same-sex “wedding” at a military base in New Jersey. The story didn’t seem quite right to me, since there is no such thing as same-sex marriage in New Jersey—only civil unions—and we usually mean to say someone . . . . Continue Reading »
Every observer of the American political scene could predict that in the hours after yesterday senseless massacre in Aurora, Colorado, two topics would surface. Some would call attention to the failures in our approach to mental illness in recent decades—the assumption being that only a . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is something for summer, which appears in this week’s Standard: In a mid-June ritual equivalent to a New Year’s resolution, I annually peruse THE WEEKLY STANDARD’s Summer Reading issue, listing the alluring books I promise to read while tucked away on some remote beach. There . . . . Continue Reading »
So right after mentioning her new book in the post below, I noticed that NRO has posted a fine interview with Mary Eberstadt , in which she implies that, just as the medical facts about cigarettes’ harm eventually came to be undeniable, so will the sociological facts about the sexual . . . . Continue Reading »
The paperback version of A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy, my critique of the animal rights movement, has just been published. From my Preface to the Paperback Edition:I had two primary purposes in writing A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy, a project that took several years. First, I wanted . . . . Continue Reading »
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