Darrow tells of sitting on a plane years ago next to an executive of a leading European electric company. In their conversation the gentleman related some of the firm’s history. For years, they had asked three questions of any proposed product. If they couldn’t answer all three in the affirmative,
Only God knows where the COVID 19 storm will take us. Some trends are encouraging, some prognostications troubling. Yet, as many have observed, the pandemic isn’t the leading cause of death in the world. Most likely, you have not been told what is. Seasonal flu? Smoking? Cancer? No. Nor is
As the Coronavirus leaps around the globe we are probably watching the veritable tip of the iceberg. As of February 26, the disease had infected 81,600 people, at least 2,767 had died, and thirty-nine nations had reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, the official name for the Coronavirus (which first appeared
This is post 5 of 5 in the series “Bill Barr at Notre Dame” Bill Barr, Freedom Fighter Freedom: Where Does It Come From? Self-Control: Will Just Any Religion Achieve It? Self-government: The Legacy of Christianity The Death of Morality Is biblical morality dead? When airliners flew into the twin
This is post 3 of 5 in the series “Bill Barr at Notre Dame” Bill Barr, Freedom Fighter Freedom: Where Does It Come From? Self-Control: Will Just Any Religion Achieve It? Self-government: The Legacy of Christianity The Death of Morality Not every religion enables self-control Years ago I saw a
Quillette recently published, “Why White Privilege Is Wrong.” The authors, Cambridge PhD students Vincent Harinam and Rob Henderson, report some surprising findings. White privilege as social theory claims that benefits accrue to individuals because of their skin color: “White privilege refers to a set of built-in advantages held by whites.
Ana Santos grew up in Brazil; today she labors with victims of human trafficking in the Mediterranean world. Human trafficking is the criminal recruitment or transportation of persons for the purpose of sexual exploitation, forced labor, the removal of organs and other similar acts.[1] Modern-day bondage enslaves more than 46
In April we published Yesterday’s Eugenics, Today’s Infanticide about the link between Darwin’s theory and the German Second Reich. The former became a building block for the latter. “It was the Second Reich, the German regime defeated in WWI, that first found in Darwinism the biological rationale to justify 16
This is post 1 of 5 in the series “Bill Barr at Notre Dame” Bill Barr, Freedom Fighter Freedom: Where Does It Come From? Self-Control: Will Just Any Religion Achieve It? Self-government: The Legacy of Christianity The Death of Morality US Attorney General Bill Barr A political theory says the
Words aren’t generally religious per se, but some words are clearly associated with Christianity. Not just technical terms like sanctification or dispensationalism but everyday words like bishop, chapel, devil, disciple, minister, sin. Words children use. Nevertheless, more than a decade ago, editors of the Oxford Junior Dictionary removed those very