Zimbabwe’s “Surprising” AIDS Success , The Catholic Thing (Matthew Hanley) Islam Will Find Its Own Way to Freedom , Public Discourse (Mustafa Akyol) Strauss-Kahn Case Seen as Near Collapse , New York Times (Jim Dwyer, William K. Rashbaum, and John Eligon) US Gen David Petraeus . . . . Continue Reading »
Marilynne Robinson is not Rock, and this is not a song. Rather, it is simply a three-word sentence dropped by the acclaimed novelist last fall, when I heard her speak at Skidmore College. But the following was initially provoked by another writer, Bill Kaufmann. Kaufmann is a hard one to . . . . Continue Reading »
Even a democracy can undermine freedom and foster the unethical rule of power. America’s founders saw this, and placed in our Constitution a Bill of Rights to preserve civil rights and protect us all from the tyranny of the majority. Gay “marriage” is often regarded as a civil . . . . Continue Reading »
1. And a movie the Porchers can almost believe in. 2. It’s a movie that’s parts of lots and lots of movies about home, friendship, family, and ETs who just want to go home. It could easily be understood as Abrams’ suck up to Spielberg. But there is, after all, a good side to . . . . Continue Reading »
In his celebrated poem Leaves of Grass , Walt Whitman considers a potential accusation against himself and shrugs it off with a quip: Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; (I am large—I contain multitudes.) Whitman was a poet rather than a logician so we find it . . . . Continue Reading »
We are concluding our journey in London, my (and Secondhand Smokette’s) favorite city in the world. Nephew Eric said that for all we have seen on our whirlwind adventure, London is the place that he definitely wants to visit again (if the strikers don’t shut the whole place down . . . . Continue Reading »
The so-called “duty to die” has been quietly discussed in bioethics for more than a decade. Now, a major British Medical Association leader proposed an implicit duty to die by stating that terminally ill people may have to be denied life-extending treatments due to the costs of . . . . Continue Reading »
You might want to keep the following story away from your kids: A new study finds that not eating candy may make them fat. So saith the scientists: For the study, published in Food & Nutrition Research, researchers at Louisiana State University tracked the health of more than 11,000 youngsters . . . . Continue Reading »
Of all the current Supreme Court Justices, Clarence Thomas is probably the one whose legal reasoning is most under-appreciated. Thomas often expresses a keen understanding not only of what the law is but what it is for . A prime example is provided by Quin Hillyer in his article explaining . . . . Continue Reading »
Same-sex civil marriage is not an inevitability, argues Matthew Schmitz in today’s On the Square feature : The approval of same-sex civil marriage by the New York state legislature did not bring on the end of the world, or of history. It did not even mark, as Michael Potemra claimed in a post . . . . Continue Reading »
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