In his latest On the Square column , R.R. Reno reflects on the 9/11 memorial: Two large, sunken pools, fed by what the official literature describes as the largest man-made waterfall in North America, drain into central shafts meant, it seems, to conjure the infinite abyss of death and loss. They . . . . Continue Reading »
Atlas of the World wildly misstates the territory of Greenland that is now supposedly ice free. Scientists have cried foul. From the ScienceInsider story:So much for claims that climate scientists deliberately misrepresent their data: glaciologists are broadly and loudly panning the latest . . . . Continue Reading »
WHY are we/NATO still conducting bombing raids in Libya? Did we not successfully exercise our Right to Protect? And even help the Libyans achieve our real (but unofficial and thus never strategically sought) goal, the removal of Gaddafi from power? As one who called for doing something to help the . . . . Continue Reading »
The blogosphere has rightly settled down from the fevered discussions on universalism occasioned earlier this year by, among other things, Rob Bell’s writings. However, distance has its advantages. In this case, the fact that universalism (or threats of it) is not quite the hot topic among . . . . Continue Reading »
David Berlinski has some useful advice for college students : I would suggest to any student . . do what I’m sure he hasn’t done: Go read the Old Testament. That should be your first challenge . . . .The Old Testament is the greatest repository of human knowledge and wisdom in the . . . . Continue Reading »
If they weren’t trying to destroy the economy of the world, keep destitute countries mired in poverty, undermine national sovereignty, and misusing science as a club to promote favored political policies, I might have some sympathy for all of the failed hysteria. You know what I mean, . . . . Continue Reading »
Liechtenstein rejects plan to legalize abortion Associated Press Mark Noll on the Foundation of the Evangelical Mind Christianity Today , Interview by David Neff If There Must Be Trouble, Let it Be in My Day DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed , Kevin DeYoung Keynesianism, Social Services, and Solvency . . . . Continue Reading »
Maureen Dowd resurrects an old meme in her most recent NYT column : The Republicans are now the “How great is it to be stupid?” party. In perpetrating the idea that there’s no intellectual requirement for the office of the presidency, the right wing of the party offers a Farrelly . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Licona is a highly respected Christian apologist, and the author of the massively researched The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach. He has come under intense fire from two other estimable scholars, Norman Geisler and Albert Mohler, for what they consider to be dangerous . . . . Continue Reading »
The answer to the question posed by the Headline: They all threaten to empower, in the words of President Dwight Eisenhower, a “scientific-technological elite.” Here’s the quote, via The Volokh Conspiracy blog:The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by . . . . Continue Reading »
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