Well, it’s that time of year again, the paper-grading season. I thought I’d share a particularly amusing/appalling incident with one of my students, as captured in this email of mine: Dear Barry, As I explained in the last email, the problems with your paper are not merely superficial, . . . . Continue Reading »
Albuquereque Voters Defeat Anti-Abortion Referendum . 55 to 45%, with heavy turnout. I had some hopes for a closer outcome. Stoked by some over-optimistic social conservative reporting, no doubt. Still, is 55 to 45 a “huge” victory for pro-abortion forces, or is it yet more evidence of . . . . Continue Reading »
Kuttner , an old-fashioned progressive, big-government liberal, said that the Democrats missed a big opportunity in 2008. Due to the mainly Republican missteps, there was a moment when progressive reform could have, once again, become change we can believe in. What we needed was a new . . . . Continue Reading »
So the big question for my TECHNOLOGY class this week is whether the book (and the idea) of THE BRAVE NEW WORLD is likely right about the chief danger facing us in our increasingly biotechnological future. Ben Storey, a student of Leon Kass, told us last week at Berry College that Leon thinks . . . . Continue Reading »
So here are a couple of books that just came out: Pope Benedict XVI and the Politics of Modernity (Routledge), edited by Marc Guerra—America’s greatest theologian. It includes a long chapter by me on the Christian view of personal logos, marriage, and other elements of rat choice . . . . Continue Reading »
Another good point Veronique de Rugy made on NRO was that . . . these constant changes in the law . . . inject a lot of uncertainties in an already uncertain environment. . . . The law says one thing, and the government does another. If I were an insurance company, I would seriously wonder what . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at NRO’s Corner, Veronique de Rugy correctly questions whether Obama’s announced “fix” today, where he says insurance companies won’t be required to suspend existing plans, is a change he has the legal authority to make: . . . can he just decide not to enforce the law? . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m not so good at making predictions. I did predict ObamaCare wouldn’t work over the long term, but I never thought that it wouldn’t experience some initial ambiguous success. On the True-False quiz: I’m encouraged by the large number of astute responses. I think the answer . . . . Continue Reading »
Hey, I know, this is Postmodern Conservative , and I should be telling you how the deep thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, Walker Percy, and The Velvet Underground’s third LP applies to the disastrous Obamacare Roll-out. But, beyond my knowing about such things, I’ve not got much . . . . Continue Reading »
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