Zuckert, Kraynak, Socrates, and Living Well with Death

by Peter Lawler

. . . in a BIG THINK introduction. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2011 0

Government Has Proper Role in Ensuring Manufacture of Needed Drugs

by Wesley J. Smith

President Obama has signed an executive order intended to promote sufficient supplies of neccessary, but unprofitable, medications—such as some chemotherapy drugs.  That’s good.  But from what I could read, the order does not get to the bottom-line cause of the problem. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2011 0

College College Bobollege

by Joseph Knippenberg

That was the name game .  Now we’re playing (and have been for quite some time) the blame game.  The Occupiers, with some encouragement from Democrats on Capitol Hill and in the White House, have been blaming the financial industry for their woes. There’s more than enough . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2011 0

On the Square Today

by The Editors

In her latest On the Square column , Elizabeth Scalia shares what she’s learned from the saints: In the Office of Readings for today, Saint Bernard instructs: “The saints want us to be with them, and we are indifferent. The souls of the just await us, and we ignore them . . . We should . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2011 0

Tenure and the Contemporary University

by Matthew J. Franck

Over at Public Discourse today, I review Naomi Schaefer Riley’s book The Faculty Lounges , which R.R. Reno discussed here at FT last week .  A sample of my take: Why are so many academic departments so ideologically homogeneous? Why are assistant professors so hard at work producing so . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2011 0

Free Speech and the Westboro Problem

by Joe Carter

A recent appellate court ruling in favor of a Westboro Baptist protester, says Carson Holloway , shows the decline of judicial ability to protect decency standards for public discourse: Rulings such as these do not arise merely from the preferences of liberal judges inclined to side with offensive . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2011 0

Keeping Up With The Terrie Schindler Schiavo Life and Hope Network

by Wesley J. Smith

Since the cruel dehydration death of Terri Schiavo in 2005, her family has been very active—through the foundation they created, now called the Terri Schindler Schiavo Life and Hope Network—speaking up and advocating for the equal moral worth of people with profound cognitive . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2011 0

Witch Burning in Saudi Arabia

by Wesley J. Smith

How can anyone be burned at the stake beheaded for “casting a spell” in the 21st Century?  But that is what has just happened in Saudi Arabia, as a “sorcerer” was executed.  From the story: According to the officer’s account Abdul Hamid agreed to carry out . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2011 0

OWS Activists Learn about Pure Democracy, the Hard Way

by Carl Scott

Here’s what Plato wrote about democracy almost 2350 years ago: “ . . . do you notice how tender they make the citizen’s soul, so that if someone proposes anything that smacks in any way of slavery, they are irritated and can’t stand it? And they end up, as you well know, by . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2011 0

Late Halloween Riddle

by Carl Scott

What is black and white but leaves law-literate liberals shrieking and gibbering with fright? The anti-Obamacare brief from the public interest law arm of the Claremont Institute! I.e., for liberals, the ultimate CLAREMONSTER!!! . . . . Continue Reading »

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