1. Carl is right that we aren’t talking enough about the courts and that a second Obama term would make it very likely that we will have a decisive liberal Supreme Court majority with who-knows-what ability to make future conservative electoral victories fruitless to a large degree. 2. . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m an interested non-Catholic observer of Catholic social thought. To fulfill an obligation to my friends at the Georgia Family Council , I wrote up some thoughts about the yeserday’s note from the Vatican about global financial institutions. Beyond the responses already . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh, it sounds so pretty in a song, but how does it play out when you’re trying to Occupy Wall Street? Not so well. Hat tip to Ricochet’s Mollie Hemingway. If the link’s report is accurate, the conclusion to be drawn is that we will almost certainly see an eviction showdown at . . . . Continue Reading »
I think many of the political and ethical arguments today, whether in bioethics, tax policy, or other issues roiling society—boil down to a fundamental dispute between what is meant by “equality.” Some (me included) believe it means equal opportunity (American . . . . Continue Reading »
Good news today out of South Bend. Carter Snead is the newly appointed head of Notre Dame’s Center on Ethics and Culture. The center takes up the central truths of Catholic moral and social teaching in order to build a culture where, “the dignity of human life is respected, the . . . . Continue Reading »
If you are a Staffordshire bull terrier and your crime was committed in the U.K., then yes . “Diesel” mauled a ten-year-old boy earlier this summer, and according to something very silly called the Dangerous Dogs Act of 1991, he ought to have been put down. But Diesel was granted a . . . . Continue Reading »
Regarding the recent Vatican document on the financial crisis, David Gibson writes: “Conservative Catholics continue to trash the Vatican’s new document calling for global financial regulation: “Rubbish, rubbish, rubbish,” says George Weigel. But . . . . Continue Reading »
Jesus may not have been the Jerry Seinfeld of his day, says James Martin, S.J., but his original audience would have thought he was funny : Think of it this way: the time from the Last Supper to the Crucifixion represent only about a week in Jesus’s life. Most of the rest of his . . . . Continue Reading »
In an interview with NRO ‘s Kathryn Jean Lopez, philosopher Christopher Kaczor uses a sci-fi analogy to defend a pro-life position: LOPEZ: What the heck does the Star Trek transporter have to do with the ethics of abortion? KACZOR: In this debate [over abortion], many colorful and striking . . . . Continue Reading »
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