Russell E. Saltzman on trying to understand the universe without reference to God : Scientists started doing science as if God did not exist long ago, at least back to Descartes, and the habit is well established. He thought mathematics and physics could tease out more about God than any jumped-up . . . . Continue Reading »
The Varieties of Nihilistic Experience, Part II Anthony Distefano, Catholic Phoenix Elusive God Particle: Found Steve O’Connor, Belfast Telegraph Romney’s Ceasefire on Obamacare? Bryon York, The Examiner The New Context for the Contraceptive Mandate Br. Thomas More Garrett, . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . both died very recently. I pretty much don’t enjoy reading Cropsey’s elusive writing much. His famous statement about America being the stage on which modern thought is played out in popular consciousness always struck me as quite the exaggeration. But it’s likely the . . . . Continue Reading »
Lately, I have been pondering the increasing use of medicinal means to achieve what are essentially non “medical” ends, by which I mean, using the knowledge of medicine to promote lifestyle agendas and fulfill what I am calling “consumerist” desires. I think . . . . Continue Reading »
The School of Rock was just a feel-good comedy about Rock and 6th-graders, given life by Jack Black’s performance, right? At first glance, yes. But the script was onto the fact that by the late-90s, rock felt played out, tiresomely/predictably decadent. And that in a reaction to general . . . . Continue Reading »
Meghan Grizzle on where we go after Rio+20 : On June 20-22, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference, known as Rio+20, signified the end of months of negotiations at the UN in New York and then a hectic week of negotiations in Rio . . . . Continue Reading »
Today is my country’s birthday. I celebrate humbly, knowing I have no merit in having been born in such an astonishingly free and prosperous nation, for which I have never shed a drop of blood.But the Declaration isn’t “ours.” It is universal. . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the advice that Allison Benedikt of XX, Slate’s feminst blog, offers to women who find sex-selective abortion unpalatable: No matter how many ultrasound pics get posted to Facebook, these are fetuses with female genitals or male genitals—not little girls . . . . Continue Reading »
James R. Rogers on collective action and the Declaration : As much as they objected to violations of individual liberty, the colonists objected to the King’s preventing them from exercising a collective liberty–to be governed by laws established by their own consent through . . . . Continue Reading »
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