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.

Catholic social doctrine in action

David Brooks says: "subsidiarity works best."

Deliver us from charities

Here comes totalitarian liberalism:

It would not be right for anyone to tell them that this is wrong, but it is OK for them to be told that some people believe it is wrong.

It would not be right to tell this man that he is a dangerous idiot, but it is OK for him to be told that I believe he is a dangerous idiot.

Stateless

An essay by Jakub Grygiel.