Pete’s bitterly hilarious post below on Romney being authentically vacuous—knowing it, loving it, bragging about it etc.—deserves a wide audience. But it seems to be, in its way, a sad goodbye to Romney bashing or a prelude to a long effort to be in love with MItt. Having read . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend sent me the link to the grimly amusing El Che: The Crass Marketing of a Sadistic Racist by the Heritage Foundation’s Michael Gonzalez. Mercedes Benz, it turns out, just launched a new car in front of a giant picture of Che Guavara with the Mercedes Benz symbol on his . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing for The Atlantic , Owen Strachan offers humorous and insightful answers to the many questions surrounding Tim Tebow: Does he win because God miraculously propels him to victory? Is the “hand of God,” as famous footballer Diego Maradonna called it, directing his passes (or at . . . . Continue Reading »
Douglas Laycock, counsel for the Hosanna-Tabor school (and professor of law at the University of Virginia), offers his thoughts on the decision at CNN: Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision holding that ministers cannot sue their churches for employment discrimination was a huge win for religious . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew J. Franck on what comes after Hosanna-Tabor : Yesterday’s unanimous Supreme Court decision in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , upholding a small Lutheran school’s right to control its employment of . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday’s Hosanna-Tabor decision by the Supreme Court is widely and rightly celebrated as a great victory for religious freedom. I’m interested in its implications for higher education. Both of the major trade publications covered it, the Chronicle here and InsideHigherEd . . . . Continue Reading »
Once again fraudulent scientific research has made the headlines—this time regarding the supposed health benefits of drinking red wine. From the Reuters story:A University of Connecticut researcher who studied the link between aging and a substance found in red wine has committed more . . . . Continue Reading »
Improving Our Sunday Best Duane Litfin, Christianity Today Mormons Worry About Acceptance but Embrace Difference Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post Putting Nuns on the Pill Matthew Hanley, Catholic Thing European Identities and Immigration Pt. II Francis Fukuyama, American Interest Ten Years . . . . Continue Reading »
It has been known for some time that one of the most award-winning directors in American film, Martin Scorsese , will be directing a movie adaption of Silence , a novel by the Catholic Japanese writer Shusaku Endo, slated for 2013. Speaking of the novel, Scorsese says that it had “given me a . . . . Continue Reading »
I am not a football fan. I will, thus, not be watching the Superbowl. But it is a day of fun with family and friends that many people look forward to enjoying for months ahead of time.I am also not a fan of Randall Terry. In the least. Which is why I am not . . . . Continue Reading »
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