Mark Edmundson is a professor of literature who has said some interesting things about the quarrel between philosophy and poetry , as well as the larger cultural implications of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Does he make sense in all of these cases? No. He’s a little too trendy for my . . . . Continue Reading »
speech to the NRA today. The stuff on four more years of Obama meaning forty more years of an Obama Supreme Court was pretty good for his intended audience, though I think that a focus on specific issues would help Romney more with both right-leaning and swing-voters. If any of the five . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times today offers a review of a new television show which centers around the lives and careers of four young, unhappy New York women. Though the back page of the arts section features a typically suggestive full-page advertisement for Girls , what’s rather . . . . Continue Reading »
Today is the feast of Pope St. Martin I, who refused a seventh-century government mandate–to remain silent on the issue of monothelitism, a heresy which denies Christ exercised both human and divine wills. Hard to appreciate perhaps, but back then theology could be a blood sport, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Evangelical pastor Steve Cornell writes on the worrying dilemma that many Christian counselors and therapists find themselves in when faced with the increasingly reductionist findings of neuroscience: With this view of human responsibility, it should not be too surprising that evangelicals . . . . Continue Reading »
James R. Rogers on the newest sin tax : Basically, Altman proposes higher income tax rates as a sort of sin tax on people who earn higher incomes. The irony is that Altman next proposes increased investment in education to help reduce income inequality. While one can argue about the specifics of . . . . Continue Reading »
Anne Hendershott and my friend Christopher White have a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal cheering the new surge in priestly vocations: What explains the trend? Nearly 20 years ago, Archbishop Elden Curtiss, then leader of the Omaha, Neb., diocese, suggested that when dioceses are . . . . Continue Reading »
I predicted the outcome in my annual predictions: VT has killed the assisted suicide bill. From the Burlington Free Press story: For nearly two hours Thursday afternoon, the Vermont Senate focused on legislation that would allow people with fewer than six months to live to opt for a lethal dose . . . . Continue Reading »
Yes,the headline is hyperbole, but scientists may be closing in on a method of “direct reprogramming” that could change one type of cell into another without first going through the “stem cell” stage. Specifically, scientists made nerve cells out of skin cells. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing for Tablet , Simi Lampert recounts her experience first deciding for—and then against—donating her eggs through an agency. She’s charmingly candid about her reasoning in favor: “It seemed like a relatively simple thing to do for the amount I’d be paid. Plus, . . . . Continue Reading »
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