Here is good news for those of us who have been continually told that divorce rates amongst Christians are comparable to those of the general population: The Christian Divorce Rate Myth.W. Bradford Wilcox, a leading sociologist at the University of Virginia and director of the National Marriage . . . . Continue Reading »
Emily Esfahani Smith, a gal with a middle name to remember, has a nice review of the high points of Allan Bloom’s take-down of rock/pop music in his Closing of the American Mind , which has a 25th anniversary this year. Worth pondering if you haven’t read Bloom’s masterpiece, or . . . . Continue Reading »
I just learned from the Heritage Foundation that the Obama Administration has created a panel to discuss establishing a measure to assess our national happiness . The good people at Heritage have more than a few misgivings about this undertaking, and not just about our ability to assess happiness . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So of course the headline of my previous post was unfair. Every single Republican from Hatch to Romney, though, has interpreted the president’s comments the same way. Call it the rhetorical exploitation of his rhetorical etch-a-sketchy moment. 2. I don’t have time to be linking but: . . . . Continue Reading »
We keep being told that Obamacare will not lead to health care rationing. But bubbling in the MSM editorial pages and the medical journals, rationing is all the rage.One of the earliest advocates was the bioethics pioneer Daniel Callahan, who has long advocated in books and journal articles . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on a great challenge to Christian understanding : Ecce homo : Christ enjoying ecstatic welcome as he enters Jerusalem, only to be rejected, scorned, debased, and destroyed just a week later. Ecce all of us , for all of our triumphs contain the threat of annihilation, . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing for the Weekly Standard , Wesley Smith speculates about the imminent legal recognition of nonhuman personhood: For years, animal rights activists have been preparing the intellectual ground to overcome the “animals aren’t persons” legal impediment to their goal of allowing . . . . Continue Reading »
The key Obama quote: “I’d just remind conservative commentators that for years what we’ve heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint — that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed . . . . Continue Reading »
The Weekly Standard ‘s current cover story reminds us that Alan Bloom’s treatise on education (and, really, culture), alternately prophetic and infamous, is now a quarter-century old. Andrew Ferguson, in his essay celebrating “the book that drove them crazy,” . . . . Continue Reading »
Oakland is a terrible wreck of a city. Terrible violence. Gang infestation. Not enough cops. Awful political leadership. A disgraceful school system in which widespread malfeasance borders on misfeasance in education, often cheating students out of their futures. I used to live . . . . Continue Reading »
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