You can still find stories that make your blood run cold. Like Panel Hears Grim Details of Venereal Disease Tests from Tuesday’s New York Times , which reported that in the late 1940s American scientists conducted Nazi-style experiments, with a Nazi-style coldness, on poor Guatemalans. . . . . Continue Reading »
Sign of the times of the day : From a report by the Public Religion Research Institute on religion and same-sex marriage. (Via: The Atlantic Wire ) . . . . Continue Reading »
The Lasting Effects of Your School Christianity Today The Good News about Bodies and the Sexualization of Children Mere Orthodoxy , Matthew Lee Anderson End Child Pornography: Enforce Adult Pornography Laws Public Discourse , Patrick A. Trueman In Germany, Sex Workers Feed a Meter New York Times , . . . . Continue Reading »
“Thinking Critically. Living Faithfully.” That’s the unintentionally ironic tagline of The Christian Century, a mainline publication that thinks critically about how to accommodate the faith so that progressives can faithfully live without tension with secularism. A prime . . . . Continue Reading »
F. Flagg Taylor’s The Great Lie: Classic and Recent Appraisals of Ideology and Totalitarianism is now out. I got my copy yesterday (Flagg’s a good friend and colleague) and the afternoon was shot. One brilliant essay after another: Aron, Havel, Milosz, Strauss, Solzhenitsyn, Arendt . . . . . . Continue Reading »
Rock’s other significance in relation to modernity, which David Bowie understood better than anyone, is that it sanctions a new type of heroism, that in contrast to, say, an astronaut’s bit part in a space-flight that is essentially the military-industrial establishment’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The second half of the 20th century saw a dramatic proliferation of Bible translations, especially in English. It may not be much of an exaggeration to observe that one man fuelled this growth: Eugene Nida, Who Revolutionized Bible Translations, Dead at 96. The Good News Bible and its successors . . . . Continue Reading »
Denny Burk makes the case that St. Paul was a widower : It is generally agreed that the apostle Paul was an unmarried man for the duration of his ministry. Not only does Acts omit any mention of Paul having a wife, but also Paul’s own letters seem to indicate the same. Nevertheless, there is . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s where I’ll be Thursday through Sunday at the American Political Science Association meeting. You can see me at two big shows: Thursday at 2, I’ll be on a Claremont panel with Hadley Arkes, our own Jim Ceaser, Pat Deneen, and Matt Spalding on the place of natural rights in . . . . Continue Reading »
Good grief. I was hoping the Feds would come to their senses and drop this case, but as I learned while actively practicing law, once bureaucratic prosecutors go into action, they never let up. Common sense has nothing to do with it.Jeremy Hill shot and killed a 2-year-old male grizzly . . . . Continue Reading »
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