The Venice Biennale - the World Cup of art - just awarded top prize to Germany, the Leone d’Oro for Best National Participation, because of a church . The winning entry, built by the recently deceased artist Christoph Schlingensief, is an impressive pseudo-chapel lined with the artist’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Despite the fact that I once taught a course (one credit, for freshmen) on love, sex, and politics from Aristophanes to Bill Clinton, I wasn’t going to say anything about Anthony Weiner’s peccadillos. But Laurie Essig knows how to push my buttons. I’ll restrict myself to two . . . . Continue Reading »
In the wake of the Anthony Weiner scandal, the Washington Post’s calls attention to the modern phenomenon of the ‘e-fair.’ This is nothing new, of course, as social media sites like Facebook have been reported in divorce cases as contributing to the end of marriages. Yet the WaPo . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter’s column today explores the unsettling extent to which Ayn Rand, the ill-chosen hero of some conservatives and libertarians, finds a twin in Anton LaVey, the founder of modern satanism : Perhaps most are unaware of the connection, though LaVey wasn’t shy about admitting . . . . Continue Reading »
Generally speaking, contemporary fiction for teens is much more readable than the literary dreck that is pushed on adults. But the young adult (YA) genre is also, as a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed notes, rife with explicit abuse, violence and depravity. Although this should be obvious to anyone . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t oppose transgenic use of animals to obtain legitimate medical substances. For example, Dolly the cloned sheep was manufactured as the first step toward creating a genetically altered sheep herd that produced a protein useful in the creation of medicines. That effort went . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: Since I give a rather harsh—though fully deserved—critique of Rand in my On the Square column today, I thought I should add this slightly less bombastic addendum .] There once was a time when I was enamored by the philosophy of Ayn Ran. An émigré from the Soviet Union, . . . . Continue Reading »
The latest poll by Gallup reveals that theism is still popular in America : More than 9 in 10 Americans still say “yes” when asked the basic question “Do you believe in God?”; this is down only slightly from the 1940s, when Gallup first asked this question. Despite the many . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, in the wake of Jack Kevorkian’s demise, had a good column against legalizating assisted suicide. I didn’t post it because it closely tracked with what I have written here and elsewhere. Now liberal Washington Post . . . . Continue Reading »
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