So here’s the BIG THINK version of my below. Pete went further than I did the debate portion of the campaign somewhat of a freak show. Doesn’t mean he’s wrong. He’s also right that it would be right for candidates to call Paul out on his actual policy views—the ones . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The current primary-dominated system for selecting presidential candidates has its flaws, but I don’t see us going back to a system in which a conclave of party leaders choose the nominee. A party leader-dominated process like the convention would have spared us some of the . . . . Continue Reading »
I bring this up because it is getting some mistaken play in the blogosphere. An apparently unconscious man was awake and aware after surgery. Great news, but why is that a national story? Because ABC more than intimated he was about to become an organ donor when he suddenly . . . . Continue Reading »
An fyi, though I can find no information on the web about it: On February 27th, the G. K. Chesterton Institute (publisher of The Chesterton Review , on whose board I sit) and the American Bible Society will be sponsoring a conference on Chesterton and the Bible. It will be held at the . . . . Continue Reading »
My previous post on the rise of ‘secular studies’ seems to have touched a nerve with Jacques Berlinerblau, who in a post for the Chronicle of Higher Education blog fulminates furiously. First, it’s worth restating that many of the critiques I voiced (particularly those . . . . Continue Reading »
I wanted to take a pass on this story. It’s gut wrenching from a personal perspective and reflects the difficulties of being humane in an era of very stretched medical budgets. But taking passes isn’t what SHS is all about, so here goes.The NYT had a front page story yesterday . . . . Continue Reading »
Jay Cost has posted the fine comments he gave at Berry College a few weeks ago (at an event funded by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute). He was critical of the present nominating system for its lack of deliberation, drawing, of course, on the classic work of our own Mr. Ceaser. What’s . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , Russell E. Saltzman says we should call it Christ’s Mass and let Best Buy keep the holiday: Who cares, first, if Best Buy or Gap “keeps” Christmas as a feature of their annual sales hustle? Hearing What Child is This? . . . . Continue Reading »
The Economist explains how social media in the sixteenth century helped bring about the Reformation : Scholars have long debated the relative importance of printed media, oral transmission and images in rallying popular support for the Reformation. Some have championed the central role of printing, . . . . Continue Reading »
The two best things I have read on the question of Newt Gingrich’s admitted past adulteries, the forgiveness of his sins upon entering into the Catholic Church, and the relevance of these facts for voters considering his presidential candidacy, are by Frank Beckwith at The Catholic Thing and . . . . Continue Reading »
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