Look here. . Is this the beginning of the a big clash between health-and-safety legislation and religious duty? Is it evidence of a shortcoming of Scalia’s interpretation of the Free Exercise Clause? . . . . Continue Reading »
Working with a small group of graduate students at the Stanford Literary Lab, English professor Franco Moretti fed a digitized text of Hamlet into a database in order to create and examine the play’s character-network : Most recently Moretti has turned his attention to what might be the most . . . . Continue Reading »
This is your opportunity to view a really fine whole conference on your computer through “streaming video.” If you want to see ME, click on the Locke panel, where I ambiguously endorsed some of the features of the “pink” Locke presented by Brown’s Professor Tomasi. . . . . Continue Reading »
We have discussed the issue of MM and SF’s proposed ban on circumcision until we are blue in the face, and so I am not permitting further comments here. But I thought some might be interested in this front page SF Chron story.Here’s the . . . . Continue Reading »
National Geographic has a fascinating article on the recently-discovered Gobekli Tepe religious site. Built around 9600 B.C., the site predates Stonehenge by about 6600 years and places the origins of human religious experience much farther back in the historical progress of our civilization than . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . is talked up by ME here. I was slow to see this movie, because studies showed it wasn’t as good as the book. But from a “bioethical” view it’s, if anything, better. It tanked, I guess, because it’s depressingly realistic in ways that have little do with cloning. . . . . Continue Reading »
Although I normally despise talk of electoral politics (especially when the election is 518 days away!) this tidbit of presidential lore was too interesting not to pass along: Of the 44 U.S. presidents, all but a handful have been affiliated with a relatively narrow list of traditional Protestant . . . . Continue Reading »
Way to go, Obamacarians! Opponents warned that the law incentivized private employers to drop health insurance companies and pay the fines, that will be less expensive than providing coverage. And now, a report published in the McKinsey Quarterly shows that 30% of employers are planning . . . . Continue Reading »
My Brazilian alter-ego, Lucas Freire, has alerted me to the following volume available via Google Books: All the French Psalm Tunes with English Words, a collection of Psalms accorded to the verses and tunes used in the reformed Churches of France and Germany (London: T. Harper, 1632). This is the . . . . Continue Reading »
Christianity Today’ s editorial explains what’s at stake in the debate about the historical Adam: This issue’s cover story, ” The Search for the Historical Adam ,” reports the claims of recent genetic research that the human race did not emerge from pre-human animals . . . . Continue Reading »
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