Joseph Bottum at the First Things blog site discusses a court ruling against home schooling that posits a new requirement for education: A divorced couple’s irreconcilable differences make what seems a very bad occasion for legal decisions with serious First Amendment implications. But that’s what
Music reviewer Dave McKenna puts his finger on an odd phenomenon that tells us a lot about the music industry and pop culture. In a review of a Keith Urban concert, he writes, You’d have to go back to Glen Campbell to find a pop-country
A scandal is breaking out in England over revelations that the National Health Service has been implementing a policy of routinely–and apparently without consulting either the patient or the family–cutting off intravenous food and fluids for patients deemed to be close to death, instead just
Rev. Christopher Jackson wrote me this e-mail: I was thinking recently that a helpful topic for you to take up in these days it the vocation of the unemployed. Specifically, I think it would be interesting to see what the Doctrine of Vocation says about
A number of liberals are becoming harshly critical of President Obama, despite their earlier support: The president won’t be able to ignore the simmering discontent within his own party much longer, the congressman [Alcee L. Hastings, angry that the president has not repealed “don’t ask,
Ted Olsen at the Christianity Today site quotes an editor of Zondervan saying that the Today’s New International Version (TNIV)–the new edition of the NIV that eliminated the “sexist” language of the Bible, even when it meant distorting the Word of God into inaccurate and
The conservative pundit George Will is calling for American troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan: Military historian Max Hastings says Kabul controls only about a third of the country — “control” is an elastic concept — and “‘our’ Afghans may prove no more viable than
I used to buy comic books for 12 cents! Who would have thought that Marvel Comics, publishers of Spiderman and other angst-ridden super-heroes, would now be worth $4,000,000,000. Of course what makes it so valuable are Marvel’s characters and concepts, which have been turned into
On September 1, 1939, a German battleship shelled Gdansk in Poland. Hitler’s attack on Poland, with the connivance of Stalin who took the Baltic Republics in exchange, was the beginning of World War II. It was 70 years ago. Do you think a war like
Scientists for the first time have managed to take a photographic image of a single molecule: It may look like a piece of honeycomb, but this lattice-shaped image is the first ever close-up view of a single molecule. Scientists from IBM used an atomic force
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