Thinking about Peter Lawler’s post, below, Obamacare, arguments about its constitutionality and the way Democrats think about the issue, the problem is that conservatives do not take seriously enough the old saying, “If you have your health, you have everything.” We need to . . . . Continue Reading »
Forging Consensus on Human Dignity at Rio+20 Elyssa Koren, The Corner Unforgettable Images of the Priesthood Tom Hoopes, National Catholic Register Introducing a New Orthodox Web Journal Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement What Does It Mean to Explore the World Through Story? . . . . Continue Reading »
Reusing old articles without admitting it, as the new young New Yorker writer Jonah Lehrer did , is something you really shouldn’t do. You know you shouldn’t do it because it fails to pass a very simple test. As a writer for the website Gawker put it (the link is in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Pat Deneen does well to call attention to this confident comment by our President: Stumping in Iowa on May 24, President Obama declared, “We don’t need another political fight about ending a woman’s right to choose, or getting rid of Planned Parenthood, or taking away affordable . . . . Continue Reading »
The Democrats are assuming, of course, that at least the mandate part of ObamaCare will be struck down by the Court. Consider this influential article in THE NEW YORKER. What mileage do you think the Democrats can get from campaigning on Republican flip-flopping on the desirability and the . . . . Continue Reading »
In a new e-book , Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York writes against those who have offered legal justifications for the torture of prisoners: In only the last few years we’ve experienced rampant disregard for religious beliefs in this country with the approval of embryonic stem cell research; . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this month, we learned that the University of Virginia’s board of visitors had forced out President Teresa Sullivan for lacking “strategic dynamism” due to her refusal to run the university like a business (including mothballing “obscure” academic programs like . . . . Continue Reading »
Retired general Wesley Clark has been in the news twice this month, first for announcing his intention to explore for coal in Kosovo—the country he midwifed with bombs back in his NATO days—and now for agreeing to co-host an NBC reality show called Stars Earn Stripes . . . . . Continue Reading »
Patrick J. Deneen on the Progressive commitment to a sterile future : How does the unquestioned Progressive commitment to human mastery over sex and reproduction fit with Progressive criticism of technological control of the natural world? The very same environmentalist commitments that lead to . . . . Continue Reading »
How can you govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese? Cheese robots . Get on their good side now, or you’ll wish you had. . . . . Continue Reading »
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