Here’s a very good and sympathetic review of Alasdair’s work that says it is. THE LINK IS NOW REALLY THERE! Here’s one sentence: “It seems to me that MacIntyre’s image of modernity as an integrated, monolithic condition only makes sense within Marxist assumptions that . . . . Continue Reading »
About a week ago, I was contacted privately about a situation that has since hit cyberspace very hard. A developmentally disabled girl, I was told, was being denied an organ transplant solely because of her disability. I made some private suggestions about what the parents might want to . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’ll be in the Washington, DC area this coming weekend and haven’t heard (or managed to register yet), the 13th Annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life is a truly invigorating experience. The conference, which will be held this upcoming Sunday, January 22, . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest issue of Sacred Architecture , Pablo Alvarez Funes describes how the eccentric and controversial Sagrada Familia became a nation’s church: The building of a church of this size could not be unconnected with controversy. In 1965 a manifesto against the continuation of . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell E. Saltzman on “What a Young Wife Ought to Know” : Wife and Number Two daughter should not be left unattended in used book stores. That’s how we ended up with the latest additions to our growing array of used (and all but used up) books: What a Young Wife Ought to Know . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an interesting conservative variation on a theme often voiced by liberal observers of evangelical politics. The standard argument goes something like this: the culture war is either over or increasingly irrelevant to younger generations of evangelicals, who respond to a much broader array . . . . Continue Reading »
And almost surely endorsing Newt! The plea of one blogger: Don’t do it until you hear what Marianne has to say! Overall, it looks more than ever like Mitt is 1-2 soon. . . . . Continue Reading »
George Washington Law Professors David Fontana and Donald Braman ran a survey experiment on what happens to public support for the Supreme Court when it makes a controversial decision. They will publish the full results of their study later this spring in the Columbia Law Review , but they . . . . Continue Reading »
The Female Screams We Don’t Want to Hear Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, National Post The Gospel in the Abortion Culture Russell Moore, Moore to the Point Transplants for the Disabled Art Caplan , MSNBC Meet the Alliance Defense Fund Tom McFeely, National Catholic Register New Direction for the . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Santorum Wins in Iowa. (New Hampshire Refuses to Re-do Primary Take His New Momentum into Account.) 2. Romney Didn’t Make History After All. 3. Gingrich Now Leads in South Carolina. 4. Romney Was on Verge of Being 3-0. May Now Be 1-2. 5. Marianne (the Second Mrs. Gingrich) Poised to Ruin . . . . Continue Reading »
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