Happy Easter!
Have a wonderful holiday! Also some good news: Boris Johnson is out of the hospital. He will be recuperating further at Chequers, the official country residence of British prime ministers.
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Samaritan’s Purse sets up a field hospital in Central Park
What wonderful people: Kelly will be among a few dozen nurses and doctors from Samaritan’s Purse, a nondenominational evangelical Christian humanitarian organization, working at a field hospital set up in Central Park — across the street from Mount Sinai Hospital … Continue reading →
Dark duos: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir and her even-more-famous lover Jean-Paul Sartre, darlings of feminists and the left, were loathsome characters in their personal lives as well in their politics, despite the heroic and self-aggrandizing legends they took great pains to establish. When … Continue reading →
The religious voter and Trump
Beto O’Rourke got a lot of attention when he suggested that churches opposing gay marriage should lose tax-exempt status: “There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for anyone … that denies the full human rights and the … Continue reading →
An American Muslim changer
[Hat tip: commenter “Artfldgr.”] Here’s a very interesting article about another kind of changer, who told his story recently in a talk to the Heritage Foundation: Khalid, now a scholar in cybersecurity studies at the University of Maryland, was born … Continue reading →
Crime and religion
Yesterday there was a lot of back-and-forth in the comments of this post about the relation between violent crime and religious belief. One of the comments was by Richard Saunders, and it went like this: If I don’t believe in … Continue reading →
Human nature: is it good or is it bad?
Commenter Richard Saunders has written: I’m wondering where the stupid idea that people are inherently good got started. Until fairly (in historical terms) recently, everyone understood that the basic rule of human conduct was, as Thucydides put it, “The strong … Continue reading →
Indian election: Modi wins
The current leadership in India, described as “nationalist” (hmmm, there’s a lot of that going around), has been re-elected in a convincing victory: Early election results indicate a landslide victory for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu Nationalist party. It … Continue reading →
Teaching Islam
Here’s a lawsuit that may go all the way to the Supreme Court: During the 2014-2015 school year, a Christian teenage girl was forced to recite the Islamic conversion creed — the Shahada — in writing for her 11th-grade class. … Continue reading →
All the News That’s Unfit to Print
Does it seem as though the NY Times has had special difficulties lately in terms of blows to its lofty goal of being the unassailable paper of record? The Netanyahu/Trump anti-Semitic cartoon, and then another anti-Semitic cartoon, both of which … Continue reading →
Orthodox Jews and the measles outbreak
When I first heard that the measles outbreak in New York was particularly bad among Orthodox (actually, ultra-Orthodox) Jews, I assumed it was because of some religious prohibition about vaccines in that group. That’s also what I read here and … Continue reading →
The trouble with the San Diego synagogue shooting narrative
(1) An armed man (an off-duty border guard) and an Iraq War veteran both charged the shooter and may have helped prevent further carnage. (2) The shooter was a white supremacist, yes, but he hated Trump for Trump’s support of … Continue reading →