My colleague Mark Mitchell on why Jane Austen still resonates with young people today and what they can learn from her: Reading Pride and Prejudice with a group of bright and interested students has been a delight. Austen can charm students in 2011 and, given
Fifteen states are considering banning abortions after five months of pregnancy. Nebraska and Kansas have passed it, and Iowa may be next: The Iowa Senate will consider a bill that bans abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy, following approval of the measure by the
This is apparently the traditional way: You don’t burn them. You never, ever burn them. An unwanted holy book, be it Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or any other scripture, can be disposed of humanely and appropriately, but not burned. A holy book is afforded the same
Earlier we blogged about the European Court of Human Rights ruling that Italian public schools could have crucifixes on their walls. Stanley Fish looks more closely at the decision and finds, as often happens in the United States too, that rulings that are seemingly in
George Wills reports on a free speech case in St. Louis: [Jim] Roos responded [to repeated efforts by the local government to seize his property] by painting on the side of one of his buildings a large mural — a slash through a red circle
Terry Jones, that Florida preacher, went ahead and burned a copy of the Koran, even though he had said that he wouldn’t. So a mob in Afghanistan killed seven UN workers. Many more foreigners were injured and there are reports of other deaths in
In many countries–especially China and other Asian nations–the preference for a boy baby is so strong that girls are routinely aborted. But this is happening in the United States also! The births among Asian-American populations are also heavily skewed to having more boys than girls.
The Fukushima 50 are the fifty workers who are trying desperately to prevent a nuclear meltdown in the four reactors damaged by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. They have had to go into the plants, subjecting themselves to massive radiation. They reportedly expect the
Every April 1, people by custom pull pranks, and this is especially true online, with phony news items, outrageous-but-soberly-delivered claims, and elaborate hoaxes. As I have said, the Cranach blog does not and will not do that. But others do. Nevertheless, I get a kick
Here is a good summary of the debate among conservatives about whether or not to support the war in Libya: Ron Radosh » Our Libyan War: What Position Should Skeptical Conservatives Take?. Neoconservative William Kristol is calling the president Barack H. Reagan and saying conservatives
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