As someone who grew up on the Jetsons, I have been disillusioned that the we did not get a lot of the things Walt Disney’s Tomorrowland promised us “by the year 2000.” Yes, we have moving sidewalks, but they are humdrum people movers at the
As someone who grew up on the Jetsons, I have been disillusioned that the we did not get a lot of the things Walt Disney’s Tomorrowland promised us “by the year 2000.” Yes, we have moving sidewalks, but they are humdrum people movers at the
It’s Reformation Week at Issues, Etc., the syndicated radio program that you can hear online both live and on demand. I’ll be interviewed today 5:00-6:00 p.m. ET on the Reformation on the Visual Arts. Other topics this week will be the Reformation and Education, the
Imagine a time in not-too-distant America when only religions that pass government tolerance criteria are allowed, relegating Christianity to rebellious teenagers, graffiti-spraying street gangs, and mysterious hideouts in Minnesota. (Islam, however, is grandfathered in, having established the Islamic state of Europe and threatening to invade
Those who worry about illegal voting are often dismissed with the claim that this hardly ever happens. A non-partisan academic study, though, finds that it does. Specifically, it found that 14% of non-citizens are registered to vote. In the 2008 presidential election, 6.4% of the
That first nurse who contracted Ebola after treating the patient in Dallas is now free of the disease. A physician in New York who was in Africa with Doctors without Borders was diagnosed with the disease. Altogether, nine Americans have contracted the disease. Details after
Roman Catholic theologian David Cloutier gives a lucid explanation of “gradualism,” that take on moral theology that allows for greater acceptance of same-sex and cohabiting couples without, supposedly, compromising traditional morality. (This is the view that gave us the first report from the Vatican’s synod
For eighteen years, the University of North Carolina has had a “shadow curriculum” in which students didn’t have to attend classes or do any work, and yet received A’s. Over three thousand students took advantage of this program, only half of them athletes. (more…)
In a column on Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, who–IF he gets re-elected to the Senate and IF Republicans win a majority on that body–could be the next Senate Majority Leader, George Will offers an explanation of why the Senate is paralyzed and how a Republican victory
Here are two heart-breaking stories of women with terminal brain cancer. The first is moving to Oregon so she can avail herself of physician-assisted suicide, searching for control of her life and “death with dignity.” The second says why she is rejecting that option and
Scotland voted to stay in the United Kingdom. But now some of the English are thinking maybe they should secede. The other members–Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales–have their own parliaments and can vote on their own local issues. England, though, just has the one centralized
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