thoughts in and out of season
James Kalb The recent performance of the Supreme Court may not create confidence in those who like to think of law as a principled bulwark of republican government, but compared with some influential legal scholarship of the past 20 years it’s downright inspirational. If you don’t believe that, take a look at The Top Ten Politically Correct … More ...
Keeping track of stories the press won’t cover helps maintain one’s grip on reality, but people who complain about spiked stories don’t always have the firmest grip themselves. Here though are some items that seem believable:
To interrupt the doom-and-gloom for a moment, here’s an interview with Catholic Hollywoodist Barbara Nicolosi that’s a good read and actually rather inspirational. It seems she’s managing to close the gap between uncultured Evangelical intensity and accommodationist post-Catholic worldliness among Christians associated with the entertainment biz.
I got the link from Kathy Shaidle’s Relapsed Catholic… More ...
One great gift we’ve received from the Blair government is a series of sure-fire cures for Anglophilic snobbishness. Did you know, for example, that anti-Christian children’s writer Philip Pullman just got a CBE, and the chairman of the Gay Police Association got an MBE for helping “modernize attitudes” within the force?
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This somewhat rambly first-person account repeats the familiar complaint that the vocational gatekeepers in most American dioceses aren’t looking for priests of integrity and orthodoxy, they’re looking for someone who’ll fit into their feminized and bureaucratic idea of FutureChurch: If You’re Not a ‘Nice Guy’…. In a section on “The Right Kind of Guy” … More ...
Condom promotion seems to have its limitations as a public health measure: more use correlates with more STDs. The result isn’t surprising. Nonjudgmental “safe sex” education says that sexual well-being is basically a matter of correct use of technology. The slightest attention to human experience would show that’s not so. If you want to … More ...
The notion that there really are differences between the sexes worth taking into account for reasons other than their more effective eradication seems to be creeping back into respectable discourse. The most recent example: a USA Today article confirming what I think most American men remember from childhood, the bias against boys in female-dominated elementary … More ...
Another multicultural data point from Vancouver: in addition to the throat slashings and whatnot among schoolchildren we’ve already commented on they’ve got the worst outbreak of syphilis in the developed world. The combination of immigration and casual sex, notably among homosexuals, has driven the incidence of syphilis up about 200-fold in the past 5 … More ...
At an American Catholic university it’s discriminatory and thus opposed to institutional purposes to treat Christian commitment as relevant to moral and social commitment. A pro-life club at Gonzaga University can’t receive official recognition as a student organization while restricting leadership positions to Christians. It’s just not done at Gonzaga, it seems, to treat Christianity … More ...
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