The Independent reports on a new documentary: It’s a girl, a film being released this year, documents the practice of killing unwanted baby girls in South Asia. The trailer’s most chilling scene is one with an Indian woman who, unable to contain her laughter, confesses to having . . . . Continue Reading »
If, like me, you read Theodore Boutrous’s defense, yesterday in the Wall Street Journal , of the proposition that the FCC should cease and desist from enforcing any notions of decency in broadcast television, and you wondered what exactly could compel a person to make such vacuous arguments, . . . . Continue Reading »
From a book review highlighted by our friends at First Thoughts: “Marxists can account for the singular, closed character of modern society by invoking Marx’s theory of historical materialism. As we produce, so we are. Our families, our friendships, our associations, our imagination, . . . . Continue Reading »
As I am asked to do each year by the Center for Bioethics and Culture, I looked into the future to see what will happen in matters bioethical. This isn’t mystical prophesy. Rather, I look at the facts as I see them now, and project out to where I think they will lead. Thus, my . . . . Continue Reading »
I do not doubt that the four Republican New York state senators who voted for same-sex marriage are convinced of the rightness of their votes. I would, however, look askance at any suggestion that they are the courageous new heroes of our time, with motives wholly principled and . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So Pete is right: The Gingrich surge is SC is greater than I expected. The reason seems to be the demagogic debate performance Pete meticulously described. Newt’s only down three! The blog consensus is that he’s almost the favorite now. 2. And there are a couple of blogs explaining . . . . Continue Reading »
At least since Gary Becker won the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics almost twenty years ago, I don’t think that we really have the option of treating “social policy” and “economic policy” as hermetically separate categories. Since I assume that the Wall Street Journal . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on Václav Havel and us : Václav Havel, who died this past Dec. 18, was one of the great contemporary exponents of freedom lived nobly. His moral mettle proved true in both the world of ideas and the world of affairs; indeed, few men of the past half-century have moved more . . . . Continue Reading »
Very strange happenings in my pal Dean Koontz’ new novel, 77 Shadow Street—which opened at number 1 on the NYT Bestseller List. Terrible things happen every 38 years to residents of the old Victorian mansion—now an upscale cooperative called The Pendleton. And now, . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s hard to untangle exactly what the objections are to a course on “Application of Biblical Insight into the Management of Business/Organization.” Or perhaps not. If the issue is quality, then an ordinary faculty course-vetting process should take care of that. Such . . . . Continue Reading »
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