Culture matters

An interesting article on health care. The bottom line is that the problem cannot be reduced to technical issues: the question of what it means to be a doctor cannot be eliminated.

Ambiguous

David L. Schindler on the theology of Christopher West.

Rapture for the nerds

If not intelligent, computers are certainly not as dumb as believers in the singularity.

Fatherless generation

For your information, births outside wedlock in the US are about to hit 40%.

How to sell 100 million books

A large trend of our age is indeed that faith is confused with religiosity.

Making postmodernism look good

What Stanley Fish has discovered is not so much that 95% of NYTimes commenters are atheists, but more fundamentally that they are positivists.

Not facing reality?

On the situation of Palestinian Christians.

Punishing motivation

Nat Hentoff on "hate crimes" legislation.

Happiness?

It takes a lot of denial and distraction in order to be a psycologist and not recognize that every human life is a great drama and an unfathomable mystery.

Good luck II

A new initiative by Francis Collins.

Good point

From a book by Terry Eagleton:

All reasoning is conducted within the ambit of some sort of faith, attraction, inclination, orientation, predisposition, or prior commitment.

Nazi progressivism

A new book on Lodz and its ghetto.

Good luck with that

It appears that the next big issue in health care reform may be rationing.

The pigs of Cairo

A new form of persecution.