Liberty, Justice, and the Common Good: Political Principles for 2012 and Beyond Public Discourse , Ryan T. Anderson Pondering the Hermeneutic of Suspicion Archdiocese of Washington, Msgr. Charles Pope Be not afraid of evangelicals Washington Post, Lisa Miller How abortion frames conservative . . . . Continue Reading »
The decline of the liberal arts over the past decade has been attributed to everything from the flagging economy to apathetic students. But Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus think at least part of the blame should be put on professors : If students are staying away from those classes, it’s not . . . . Continue Reading »
On September 9, Duke Law School will be hosting a conference exploring the role of theological argument in law through the work of Stanley Hauerwas. The conference is free and open to the public, though attendees are encouraged to RSVP. See here for more information. . . . . Continue Reading »
The NYT certainly has been writing about our emerging brave new world of industrial procreative manufacture and quality control lately. Today’s installment discusses how a new blood test of the mom can detect gender at 7 weeks—without ultrasound that can bond a mother to her gestating . . . . Continue Reading »
HERE . So I’m trying to finish a paper/chapter comparing Tocqueville and Percy on the pop Cartesian “I” who’s at the core of the democratic idea of freedom. It’s certainly good news that no materialistic/impersonal/Darwinian/neuroscientifc account of nature can . . . . Continue Reading »
To continue where we left off in Songbook #14, rock intellectualizing not only involves dismissal of the musically fine, but also of intellectually fine. It’s very activity demonstrates its ambivalence toward the core activity of the life of the mind, the wrestling with thinkers of first rank. . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s two separate issues . . . I agree with Pete that encouraging Ryan to enter the race is to fall short of endorsing him. It’s even a kind of desperation move based on pessimistic premises. Despite his lack of managerial experience and all that, Kate in the thread below is right to . . . . Continue Reading »
Over the years I have had people send me stories on aborted fetuses being consumed in China as a delicacy or a medicine. I haven’t gone with it because I wasn’t clear on the credibility,and because the idea seemed too revolting and sensationalistic. I’m still very uncertain, but . . . . Continue Reading »
John Stott has passed away. The English evangelical leader who inspired so many American believers. When I was a student leader in InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, it was a source of pride that our organization was linked to this man. He’s probably most famous for Basic Christianity and The . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The Cult of Cats Cats first decided to live among humans over 9,000 years ago. A burial site in Cyprus dating from 7,500BC provides the earliest evidence, with the corpse of an eight-month-old cat carefully laid out in its own tiny plot less than two feet away from its companion human. This . . . . Continue Reading »
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