[Note: At the request of a reader, I’ve decided to make the summer reading suggestions an annual tradition. Next Friday I’ll post the recommendations for 2011. But I thought since the 2010 list contains some of my favorites that I’d repost it once more. One minor change from last . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s a real nice discussion of my MODERN AND AMERICAN DIGNITY . . . . . Continue Reading »
Many readers of First Thoughts may be aware that San Francisco voters will be voting in November to criminalize circumcision—no religions exemptions allowed. Beyond the questions of the propriety of putting such a personal family matter up for a vote, the author of the initiative runs . . . . Continue Reading »
I hate to get back to this issue, but Secondhand Smokette has a post out today in her San Francisco Chronicle “Token Conservative” blog that shows the profound anti Semitism exhibited in some of the anti circumcision advocacy of Matthew Hess, the author of San Francisco’s upcoming . . . . Continue Reading »
Animal rights advocates—and others—went into furious conniptions because Sarah Palin authorized wolves to be shot from helicopters as part of Alaska’s animal management program. Some ever—erroneously—claimed she did the shooting. She did not, but left that . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s Inside Higher Ed brings word of yet another NLRB decision requiring a Catholic University to permit a labor union to attempt to organize its adjunct faculty. This time, it’s St. Xavier University in Chicago. A few months ago , it was Manhattan College . In both . . . . Continue Reading »
Given by ME . . . . . Continue Reading »
Many of our readers are interested in the question of how Christian colleges and universities evaluate and document their identity. We can talk about curricula, hiring principles, governance, and many other factors. A ruling this week from the National Labor Relations Board has declared . . . . Continue Reading »
The Washington Post reports a comic incident in the Chinese battle for identity that seems more appropriate for a Walker Percy novel than real life: last month a wealthy urbanite forced a delivery van packed with pooches destined for dinner tables off the road and sparked a 15-hour roadside siege . . . . Continue Reading »
Emoticons are a form of informal punctuation, akin to the more formal exclamatory (!) and interrogative (?) punctuation marks. Although they are not yet suitable for formal written works, there is nothing wrong—assuming that, like the em dash, they are used sparingly—in sprinkling them . . . . Continue Reading »
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