“The season of Advent often gets combined with Christmas, thanks to retail and academic calendars encroaching on the liturgical calendar and a general love for celebration and excess. Our duty as preachers and teachers, however, remains to remind our people that Advent is a time of quiet and . . . . Continue Reading »
The human body and its constitutent parts are fast becoming among the world’s most valuable “natural resources.” Indeed, ounce for ounce, human eggs are probably the most expensive (now) commodity in the world.Because human bodies are so valuable, biological colonialism . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square feature, David Bentley Hart takes on the “Oxfordian hypothesis” and its champions : If you are unacquainted with the “Oxfordian hypothesis,” count yourself blessed. It was born in 1920, in a book by a demented English Comtean whom Fate, with her . . . . Continue Reading »
Perhaps I’m just addicted to indignation, but I can’t help myself. Today’s entry is a rather smug piece by Jacques Berlinerblau, who thinks that purely rational (and rationalist) standards are the only ones that can be considered truly and professionally academic. A taste of . . . . Continue Reading »
Abortion Case Loses Ground, but Issue Stays Hot in Kansas New York Times , A. G. Sulzberger Smoking marijuana not a religious practice, judge tells Church of the Universe member National Post , Douglas Quan I was too old when I had my baby, says IVF mum aged 61 Daily Mail , Tom Kelly The Gospel . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay, here’s a shorter way, for those of you who haven’t the patience for my full cinemascopic link-littered prose, to get at what I mean by Intermediate Modernity In Book VIII Republic terms, intermediate-modernity was the era of the self-repressing Oligarchic Soul, and “the . . . . Continue Reading »
The strident attempt to silence the skeptics who question the popular thesis that humans are adversely affecting the earth’s climate hit a new high over the past couple of weeks with the release of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project (BEST) report from a group of scientists centered . . . . Continue Reading »
The Internet is the best and worst thing that could have happened to serious study, I wrote last time in this series. The benefit is in the sheer quantity of information available. The chief problem is distraction. There are other risks, including that of becoming a Google scholar.Studying the Bible . . . . Continue Reading »
All from Mr. Postmodern Conservative himself, of course, over at Ricochet. . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, the NYT carried a letter to the editor from an Obama Adminstration representative, reacting to a column published in the Gray Lady’s op/ed page that criticized the government’s crackdown on medical marijuana, an issue we have discussed here also at SHS. The letter . . . . Continue Reading »
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