Bernard Yack reviews a volume on Macintyre’s debt to Marx and concludes that he is not the “revolutionary Aristotelian” he has claimed to be: His Aristotelianism may be critical, unseasonable, alienated, and anti-hierarchical; it is not really revolutionary. True, MacIntyre would . . . . Continue Reading »
Dr. Robert George gave a lecture Monday night at St. Thomas More Church in New York City, entitled “ Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality In Crisis .” By way of showing the marked differences between understanding life-issues from utilitarian consequentialism and from natural . . . . Continue Reading »
Battle Over Birth Control Libby A. Nelson, Inside Higher Ed Funeral Directors Adapt to a Secularizing Clientele Max Rivlin-Nadler, The Awl Benedict’s New Friends: Greenpeace and the Socialists John Allen, National Catholic Reporter Slim Profits from Online Gambling Michael Cooper, New . . . . Continue Reading »
The Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University School of Law in Queens, New York, which is under the direction of First Things contributor Professor Mark L. Movsesian, is sponsoring a colloquium this spring with an extremely impressive set of speakers, including United States Supreme . . . . Continue Reading »
I finally have a chance to talk about the last ninety minutes of the debate, 1. What the heck is with Juan Williams? There is no upside whatsoever in calling out Gingrich on his food stamp President/go-to-the NAACP- and-tell-them-to-demand-jobs-not-food-stamps comments. Gingrich . . . . Continue Reading »
On to the mentally ill! That is the message of a new article in the Dutch language tijdschrift voor psychiatrie 53 (2011) 8 (Journal of Psychiatry). I’ll skip the nonsense about great care being shown, and “hopeless” conditions—which the article doesn’t say . . . . Continue Reading »
Last night in Charleston, South Carolina on the day the nation celebrates the Rev. Dr. King, Governor Rick Perry used a question about voting rights to say the Federal government was at “war” with the states. This was either ignorant or disgusting. I think it should end the Perry . . . . Continue Reading »
Joan Frawley Desmund at National Catholic Register interviewed Georgetown University’s Thomas Farr several days ago, with a focus on the administration’s promotion of gay rights abroad. Farr discusses the open letter, drafted and signed by Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox Jews, and Sikhs, . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is the first of my big thoughts on it. . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Schmitz errs when he suggests, in his critique of the Wall Street Journal editors, that the Journal ‘s position is dishonest. The editors have not only made the morally right case, they have been honest and consistent in doing so. Schmitz doesn’t see this because he has . . . . Continue Reading »
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