Alvin Plantinga is surely one of the best living philosophers. He is also an evangelical Christian. The New Republic, no less, has printed his review of Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False. Nagel, an eminent
The Washington Post‘s Ezra Klein tries to assure businesses that Obamacare won’t be so bad. But in doing so, he makes me wonder whether a program built largely around employer-provided health insurance might have the effect of eliminating many people’s employer-provided health insurance: The health-care
One reason for President Obama’s big re-election victory is that Hispanics turned out for him in record numbers. 71% voted for him, with Mitt Romney getting only 27% of the Hispanic vote. George W. Bush got 44%, so it’s not impossible for Republicans to get
Hamas has been firing rockets and missiles into Israel, sparking Israeli retaliation. The two sides have agreed to a cease fire. Israel managed to shoot down virtually all of rockets thanks to a new anti-missile system called “Iron Dome.” Based on American technology, this is
Bob Dylan came to the nation’s capital earlier this week, and I went to his concert with Pete Muller, frequenter of this blog, who initiated the whole expedition. First he threw a birthday party for his wife with some other quite amiable friends who happened
One of the reasons President Obama was re-elected, according to observers, is the way his campaign made use of data-mining and other on-line resources. This article by Craig Timberg and Amy Gardner in the Washington Post details what the campaign did and says how other
The Church of England voted not to allow women to be bishops. Bishops, priests, and laity had to pass the proposed change by a two-thirds majority. The Bishops voted 44-3 in favor of female bishops. The priests voted 148-45 in favor. The measure was blocked
Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of C. S. Lewis. Next year on the 50th anniversary of that occasion, Lewis will be honored with a plaque in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. English writers have been either buried here or memorialized since the
Walter Isaacson has written a fascinating column about Ben Franklin’s view of America. He quotes from an essay Franklin wrote about Thanksgiving. I have never heard this detail about the Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving. Perhaps it’s apocryphal. But still, it reminds us of a common confusion
I believe that God has made me and all creatures; that He has given me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my limbs, my reason, and all my senses, and still preserves them; in addition thereto, clothing and shoes, meat and drink,
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