Lisa de Moraes of The Washington Post reports on the media coverage of the Michael Jackson memorial service: At least 16 television networks plan live coverage of the Jackson memorial. At press time, the list included ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Fox News Channel, CNN, CNN
The Pope has issued an encyclical entitled Charity in Truth that calls for a new kind of economic system: “Today’s international economic scene, marked by grave deviations and failures, requires a profoundly new way of understanding human enterprise,” Benedict wrote in his latest encyclical, which
Well, we’re back from the road trip, in need of a vacation from our vacation. A good part of that time, I couldn’t get on the internet, which was kind of a refreshing vacation in itself. Tomorrow we play the other role, the one we’ve
In terms of the doctrine of vocation, people leave their callings all the time when God calls them to something else, including retirement. But to leave one’s vocation out of ambition for another vocation that one does not have but merely desires seems wrong. For
Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson raises a good question: Why did virtually all economists of every school of thought fail to see what was happening in the economy they presumably study? One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to
Tomorrow is America’s birthday. It’s a good time to think about where we are as a nation. Are we still the land of the free and the home of the brave, even though a terrorist attack nearly a decade ago still has us taking off
Michael B. Crawford had a Ph.D. in philosophy, which led him to becoming a motorcycle mechanic. He explains the connection in his new book Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work. From a review: In his book Crawford argues for a
One Eternal Day assembles material from a number of sources on how nationalized health care can lead to rationing which can lead to passive euthanasia. The whole post is worth reading, but I call your attention to what is already happening in England: From Wesley
Over at the First Things blog, there is a good discussion of the nature of hypocrisy, analyzing the charges against the South Carolina governor and adulterer Mark Sanford. First, Joe Carter: The American Heritage Dictionary defines hypocrisy as “The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or
Congress is fighting over an administrative proposal to expand the definition of switchblades so as to ban certain currently-legal pocketknives: Opponents of the Obama administration’s plan to expand the definition of “switchblades” and block the importing of many common pocketknives suffered an early setback in
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