The problems with HealthCare.gov and the Obamacare rollout go beyond the technical glitches, says Michael Gerson. He draws on economist Friedrich Hayek, who showed why highly complex systems simply cannot be managed by centralized technocratic planners. (more…)
You thought it strange that Japanese young adults are losing interest in sex? How about American teenagers who are losing interest in driving? Only half of teenagers have a driver’s license by the time they are 18. Twenty years ago two-thirds did. After the jump,
Prince George, the future King of England, was baptized yesterday. For that occasion, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who baptized the prince, made a quite remarkable video about the meaning of baptism. Read the excerpts and watch the video after the jump. Note the
We are learning that the problems with HealthCare.gov, the website that is the portal to Obamacare health insurance, are not just due to the large number of people trying to sign on. It turns out that the website is symptomatic of government incompetence on an
Get Luther’s Small Catechism for your smartphone, for free. It isn’t exactly an app, but it’s the same difference, mostly. Go online with your device to cph.org/catechism and bookmark the site, which is specially formatted for mobile phones and tablets. (more…)
In our continuing effort to try to figure out the new Pope of Rome–is he a liberal? a traditionalist? a traditionalist acting liberal?–another possibility has presented itself: Is he evangelical? (Not “an evangelical,” but evangelical in the sense of stressing the Gospel–grace, Christ, the Word
Nonprofit hospitals are defined as those that devote at least 3% (or in some states 4%) of their revenue to treat patients who cannot pay for treatment. Well, if Obamacare works to insure everybody, those requirements might be hard to meet, forcing the 60% of
My friend and former colleague Joel Heck has been doing some exhaustive research on the life of C. S. Lewis. He has put together a detailed chronology that you can see on his website. On the basis of that work, Joel has prepared a C.
An objection being made to Tullian Tchividjian’s op-ed piece in the Washington Post that we blogged about yesterday (and that came up in our discussion too) is that legalism just isn’t the problem in the church today. Rather, churches are rife with licentiousness. Too much
Young people in Japan are not only losing interest in marriage. They are losing interest in relationships altogether. And they are reportedly taking the next step: Losing interest in sex. (more…)
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