1. Well I’m sorry that I won’t have Pawlenty to kick around anymore, but he ran a campaign that deserved to run aground. 2. I’m looking forward to Peter’s treatment of Perry, at least partly because it will help relieve me of having to form my own opinion . . . . Continue Reading »
“A less confrontational, more pragmatic force is behind a record number of anti-abortion laws and pro-choice’s ‘bad year’” So says the Christian Science Monitor in a profile of my friend and former boss, Charmaine Yoest: Yoest, the president and chief executive officer of . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Anderson addresses one of “evangelicalism’s least developed doctrines”—the theology of the body : Renewed evangelical interest in the body has perhaps been most evident—and problematic—in our teaching about sex and sexuality. Starting in the 1970s, . . . . Continue Reading »
On Truth and Trade: Economics and the Catholic Vision of the Good Life Dappled Things , Bernardo Aparicio García, Robert T. Miller, and John C. Médaille Perry, Prayer, and Politics Public Discourse , Justin Dyer Bring Back Stigma City Journal , Myron Magnet Mass Appeal: The secret to Rick . . . . Continue Reading »
Rod Dreher interviewed James Arthur , head of the school of education at Birmingham University and a UK national expert on character education, about the recent British riots: What does the collapse of Christianity as a significant moral force in British society have to do with all this. I believe . . . . Continue Reading »
I first heard the euphemistic term “selective reduction,” at a bioethics conference at which I was speaking in Banff, Alberta. I don’t remember the year, probably about a decade ago. I was speaking on assisted suicide, and as I awaited my turn, the speaker before me . . . . Continue Reading »
This is funny, given our recent conversation about bioethicist Julian Savulescu’s support for “morally enhancing” people through drugs or implants. Apparently the UK Government plotted to do the same thing to Hitler by feminizing him with estrogen. From the Telegraph . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve determined that there’s a political faction out there that needs a name, because it’s a group of conspiracy theorists with a particular agenda that’s becoming somewhat influential, and it’s achieving its agenda fairly well. Its agenda is to discredit mainstream . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, first, I want to praise Carl’s doing so well in making so much out of THE RAMONES. He’s not yet ready for the cover of THE ROLLING STONE, but he has been linked by the magazine’s website, apparently. I saw the Ramones live in Baltimore in 1978. I enjoyed the crowd. But they . . . . Continue Reading »
I am worried that we are going full circle around the bioethical issue informed consent. Where once, patients and families weren’t allowed to decide to stop heroic medical efforts—the dreaded “paternalism,” as it came to be called—today a neo paternalism movement . . . . Continue Reading »
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