The National Portrait Gallery is opening a huge exhibit on Abraham Lincoln. It includes this photograph by Alexander Gardner in 1865, shortly before the president’s assassination, a print made from a glass plate that had cracked. Art critic David Brown calls it “one of the
Now the government is getting ready to bail out General Motors and the rest of the American auto industry. William Katz contemplates the prospect: Let’s see if I have this right. I, and millions of my fellow citizens, in addition to our other burdens, will
“Christianity Today” reports on the way philosophy departments in American universities are no longer havens of atheism; rather, thanks to the efforts of a new generation of Christian philosophers and an increased sophistication of discourse, the existence of God and contemplation of His attributes are
From William Lane Craig, God Is Not Dead Yet in Christianity Today, on the new credibility of God in contemporary philosophy: The kalam cosmological argument. This version of the argument has a rich Islamic heritage. Stuart Hackett, David Oderberg, Mark Nowacki, and I have defended
That’s what a Marxist historian is saying. From The London Telegraph: For those who missed it, I recommend Edward Stourton’s BBC interview with Eric Hobsbawm, the doyen of Marxist history. “This is the dramatic equivalent of the collapse of the Soviet Union: we now know
If you can vote, exercise free speech, criticize your government, or practice your faith openly, thank a veteran.
Some 600,000 women want to adopt a child, with plenty of parents being open to older children and those with special needs. Some 129,000 children in the foster care system need to be adopted. Yet only some 8,000 a year become a part of someone’s
Thanks to Bruce and tODD for reminding me of The Onion and for alerting me to these satirical takes on our sainted president-elect: Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are Then there is this, headlined Black Man Given America’s Worst
In browsing Wikipedia for some quick facts about something else, I came across this summary of Mortimer Adler’s rather more sophisticated version of the cosmological argument for the existence of God: In his 1981 book “How to Think About God”, Adler attempts to demonstrate God
Updating an earlier post about San Francisco voting on whether to legalize prostitution, the city voted “no.” A vicious proposal to rename the city’s sewer treatment plant after George W. Bush was also defeated. See S.F. rejects prostitution, energy measures.
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