The headline news in the London Daily Telegraph over the weekend read: “Young thugs ‘should fear the police’ says David Cameron’s new crime adviser.” Gosh, ya think? Who is this “new crime adviser” with a gift for stating the obvious? He turns out to be none other than our own Bill Bratton, former head of…
In yesterday’s Guardian a pair of researchers named Victoria Talwar and Stephanie M Carlson report on their own recently published study in Social Development which purports finally to have discredited the maxim: “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” This saying is said to have “a strong resonance even in countries where corporal punishment has been…
This summer I presented on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington a series of five films on the general theme of Heaven. The fifth and final film in the series, After Life by Hirokazu Kore-eda, was shown on Tuesday, July 26th. Before the movie, I spoke for…
Blogging novelist Walter Kirn has an entertaining rant today saying what I have often said and oftener thought but in a more, er, colorful way than it has ever occurred to me to say it: Hey, intellectuals! My fellow weenies! Our culture totally, world-historically, down-to-the-sub-atomic-level sucks — even our low culture sucks now, despite all our…
This summer I am presenting on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington a series of five films on the general theme of Heaven. The films are being shown at the Hudson Institute, 1015 15th Street N.W., Suite 600, and you can go to the EPPC or Hudson websites for…
This morning’s topic on the WTOP (Washington News Radio) Talk Back line with David Burd took the occasion of today’s women’s World Cup soccer final to invite comments from listeners on why so few people watch women’s sports. “Be honest,” said Mr Burd, perhaps as a way to absolve himself from any responsibility for “sexist”…
Remarkably, a movie as stuck on The New York Times as The New York Times is
The New York Times’s “Opinionator” blog includes something called “The Stone” — that would be “the Philosopher’s Stone” — which advertises itself as “a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless.” One such philosopher is professor Gary Gutting of the University of Notre Dame who writes for “The Stone” his views “On Experts…
This summer I am presenting on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington a series of five films on the general theme of Heaven. The films are being shown at the Hudson Institute, 1015 15th Street N.W., Suite 600, and you can go to the EPPC or Hudson websites…
[See “Entry from July 13, 2011” under “My Diary”]
[See “Entry from July 13, 2011” under “My Diary”]
