Medicare is dying like a tree, slowly from the roots. As we Baby Boomers get ready to come on line (just three years and less than a month for me), the money is drying up, the status quo unsustainable, the supposed trust fund a fiction. Representative Ryan has put out a proposal that . . . . Continue Reading »
Congratulations to First Things contributing editor David Bentley Hart: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, today awarded the 2011 Michael Ramsey prize to ‘Atheist Delusions’ by David Bentley Hart at a gala lunch at the Telegraph Hay festival. Speaking about the winning . . . . Continue Reading »
Let’s take a survey: Are Americans (a) really bad at estimating, (b) really gullible, (c) both really gullible and really bad at estimating? After seeing the results of this Gallup survey , I think the answer is obvious: U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25% of Americans are gay or . . . . Continue Reading »
In the wake of the controversy over Love Wins, someone recently suggested to me that perhaps hell is not eternal after all and that those sent there might one day complete their sentences, much as a prisoner serves for a certain period and is then released. It’s an intriguing and hopeful . . . . Continue Reading »
“There is this free lunch of just stop doing things that you and your kid don’t enjoy, and it’s not going to change the future anyway, so relax. I would say to the Tiger Mom, that is a very strong piece of evidence against you that someone can raise a child in a way that you . . . . Continue Reading »
One night in early 1983, my teenaged-Christian-60s-obsessed-socialist/pacifist-leaning self heard this song on the radio. I had not heard U2 before, and I was thrilled. Here was a band politically committed in a way that smacked of the idealism of the 60s I had been reading about in library books, . . . . Continue Reading »
My father spent nearly three years fighting in the Pacific, earning two Bronze Stars and a Silver Star, and two battlefield commissions. He declined a Purple Heart for fear of alarming my mother. Dad, like all combat veterans I have met from old World War I heroes—all moved on, now—to . . . . Continue Reading »
We’re pretty close to the end of the graduation season, but the litigation about graduation season never seems to end. Here’s an interesting call for some sort of truce in the prayer wars. The author, a self-professed non-believer, offers a distinction between a communal . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the reasons I turned against single payer is that I believe—as an advocate who learned the trade at the knees of Ralph Nader—in the tort system. It provides a free market remedy in a free market system.Tort law is especially important in the health care marketplace, where . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s what I think. This is in response to David’s sigh in the thread below about the Bob Dole year to come. . . . . Continue Reading »
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