On January 1, Pope Benedict XVI formally announced the creation of a new personal orindariate for Anglican groups in the United States wishing to convert to Catholicism. The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter , which is “juridically equivalent to a . . . . Continue Reading »
I imagine that Leon Wieseltier and I disagree about many things. But I’ve long found him to be a reliable enemy of cant. I was not disappointed by his recent Washington Diarist column in The New Republic . He takes Duke University philosophy professor Alex Rosenberg and author of The . . . . Continue Reading »
Heck, I dunno. There are more potential storylines that can come out of the order of Iowa finishes than I can keep track of. Stories like do Perry or Gingrich finish fourth? I don’t have the energy to keep up with most of them. So I’m going to focus on whether . . . . Continue Reading »
I never understood the logic of Obamacare’s tax on durable medical equipment. If the point is to lower health care costs—supposedly one of the two primary raisons d’ etre for this awful law (the other being to expand coverage)—the last thing you do is tax medical equipment . . . . Continue Reading »
Over the holidays, my wife and I saw two movies, both on the recommendations of trusted friends: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and Hugo.I was, pre-children, a pretty hard-core film buff. One week in college I cut an entire week of classes for a science fiction film festival, something . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing in the Scotsman , John Haldane remembers recently deceased Catholic philosopher Michael Dummett: Between Christmas and New Year, Britain lost its greatest living philosopher. Sir Michael Dummett was 86 and he died at the home in Oxford which he had shared with his wife Ann for the last half . . . . Continue Reading »
The headline seemed controversial, but I don’t think it is. Scientists have removed male germ cells from the testes of mice and transformed them into sperm, from whence they come in the normal functioning male body. From the Telegraph story:Researchers in Germany and Israel were able to . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Doran on Newt Gingrich, the Potomac, and the Tiber : In a recent debate, Gingrich referred to the Arab Spring as an “anti-Christian Spring,” signaling that the status of Middle Eastern Christians might become the centerpiece of his foreign policy toward the Muslim world. The fate . . . . Continue Reading »
Arab Democracy Best Bet for Muslim Reformation Wall Street Journal , Matthew Kaminski Iowa’s “Uneducated Jesus Freaks” Get Religion , Mollie Ziegler Hemingway Leave the Christ in Christmas & the Lennon in Lennon CNN, Stephen Prothero 2011 in Charts The Economist Divorce Rate . . . . Continue Reading »
I never heard of Tintin while growing up in rural Nebraska. When I later encountered him on the syllabus of an English course during my undergraduate years (there is a whole field of Tintin studies manned by people called Tintinologists, Tintinolators, Tintinites or Hergélogues) he seemed like . . . . Continue Reading »
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