And another one bites the dust. Polar bears and their supposed decline are the mascots of global warming hysteria. As a consequence, we hampered our prosperity in the USA by legally restricting energy creation based on the apparently very wrong notion that polar bears are . . . . Continue Reading »
In the hearts of civil rights and MSM leaders. Over a certain usable aspect of the boy’s killing. Yeah, Shelby Steele is taking no prisoners in his latest: In fact Trayvon’s sad fate clearly sent a quiver of perverse happiness all across America’s civil rights establishment, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Front Porch Republic’ s R. J. Snell offers some worthwhile reflections on the recent allegations at Dartmouth involving the fraternity culture there. Moving beyond a visceral reaction to the details, which manage to be both tawdry and pathetic, Snell looks to Wendell Berry to make a broader . . . . Continue Reading »
I was prepared—for once in a blue moon—to like this column by the Washington Post ‘s resident liberal Catholic scold, but, in the end there were too many jarring notes. To begin with what I rather liked: I want to suggest that what should most bother Christians of all political . . . . Continue Reading »
Ersatz or Authentic? Last Supper Seders Marvin Olasky, World Beware the Fausts of Neuroscience George Walden, Standpoint Two Views: Allan Bloom & Pop Culture Mark Judge & Emily Smith, Minding the Campus Thomas Merton on Social Media Jennifer Fulwiler, National . . . . Continue Reading »
Do you know that the Supreme Court struck down a federal economic regulation in Lochner v. New York? President Obama knows it. It just isn’t true. I think Carl got the tone just right in his comments in this thread. Carl writes: But with Obama, it’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Tucker Max, the bestselling author and self-proclaimed “frat-boy David Sedaris,” makes me glad that adolescent boorishness usually goes along with illiteracy. His stories—-centered on the abuse of alcohol and of women, in both cases extreme—-are generally better to ignore . . . . Continue Reading »
I am not a German lawyer, and so I don’t know if this is dispositive or merely the first step in a longer legal process. But a German administrative court has apparently ruled that the ban on physician-assisted suicide is too “general,” whatever that means. From the UPI . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on how Easter changes everything : Christmas occupies such a large part of the Christian imagination that the absolute supremacy of Easter as the greatest of Christian feasts may get obscured at times. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, an Italian biblical scholar, suggests that we might . . . . Continue Reading »
Christianity and Power Kyle Cupp, League of Ordinary Gentlemen Strip Searches and Human Dignity Rob Vischer, Mirror of Justice Baptism on the Chopping Block for Anglicans? Mary Ann Mueller, Virtue Online Battle Hymn of the Anti-Abortion Feminist Lila Rose, Politico Can Peter . . . . Continue Reading »
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