Monthly Archives: December 2010

RR Reno It’s easy to step back and denounce the excesses of the Christmas season: the orgy of spending, too much food, too much drink, too many parties, and expensive ski vacations that bring aching credit card hangovers. Easy, but … Continue reading →

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On Thursday, January 27, at 7:30 PM at Roanoke College, Rabbi Dr. Eugene Korn and Prof. Gerald McDermott will discuss “What can Christians and Jews learn from each other?” Dr. Korn is currently the American Director of The Center for … Continue reading →

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Tessa Dahl looks out from a page of the Daily Mail online. I had never heard of her until a few days ago when someone drew my attention to the story headed, “Why I’m leaving a life of addiction behind … Continue reading →

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But the main myth about him is that while imprisoned by the Gestapo he drifted away from orthodox Christianity toward some kind of “post-Christian humanism,” that he became some kind of atheist. This one is based off of a single … Continue reading →

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Micheal Flaherty Lewis would likely have appreciated making Mrs. Palin’s reading list. But he probably would have appreciated the questions about it even more. For Lewis, one of the best ways to know a person was to know what they … Continue reading →

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Matthew J. Franck Marginalize, privatize, anathematize: These are the successive goals of gay-marriage advocates when it comes to their opponents. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/17/AR2010121702528.html Share a link to this post:

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Peter Wood Martin Gaskell is an astronomer who specializes in super-massive black holes, such as the one that lies at the heart of own galaxy. He recently tripped, however, and fell into a different kind of black hole — the … Continue reading →

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RR Reno I’ve been thinking about this lately because of all the news about Wikileaks, the website that recently began publishing a vast trove of American diplomatic cables. The head of the rouge operation, the Australian Julian Assange, likes to … Continue reading →

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Stephen Heaney Overwhelmingly, research shows that rearing children in any other environment than with both their natural parents is damaging. Sometimes that damage is unavoidable, as when a parent dies, but we shouldn’t seek it. And it certainly won’t help … Continue reading →

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Caitrin Nichol Critiques of genetic or neurological determinism, or any of the other reductionist bugbears, too often preoccupy themselves with what they assume to be a sinister philosophical agenda at work. This is not entirely unreasonable; there are any number … Continue reading →

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