Embryo factories

The next logical step.

Running for a cliff

The contemporary version of Dostoevski's Demons. One could argue that throwing bombs was less destructive.

On the European situation, see also Spengler.

Stuck

Once again, the universe turns out not to be exhausted by our theories.

Default identity

Some people are having a hard time to be recognized as non-Muslim.

Science?

Apparently Charles Darwin was a (social) Darwinist.

Freedom flame

A brief report from Cuba.

A dilemma

There is a built-in contradiction in the idea of public education in a deeply divided society.

Foundling wheel

A very traditional and Catholic idea.

Children of the state

Apparently there is no freedom of education whatsoever in Germany.

Familiar pattern

It is remarkable how certain phenomena start popping up in similar forms more or less at the same time in the most disparate corners of the world.

They are back

A few months after the gospel of Judas, here comes the tumb of Jesua. The only interesting question is: why would anybody think that this is interesting?

Confusion

The British government is divided about whether it is better to have two parents in a family.

Big problem

Giuliani's Catholic problem. The real problem is that his whole persona embodies the cultural meltdown of east-coast "ethnic" cultural Catholicism. Does faith have any relevance to real life?

Cultural poverty

It seems reasonable that if a society fails to educate the young, the result will be a new kind of
underclass. But the origin of the problem is not globalization; it is a neglect of humanity.

Work of mercy

On Catholic education in Jordan.

Ironic

England is experiencing massive Catholic immigration.

Survival of the fittest

Many people are not aware that the US had its own age of eugenics.

Self-hatred

Another depressing but brilliant Dalrymple column.

Illiberal

An interesting discussion regarding the growing intolerance of religion among certain "liberal" figures in the US.

"A left-liberal commitment to religious freedom is not something that can be counted
on any more"

That has been one of the most impressive and under-reported cultural shifts in this country over the last decade.

Hegemony

Given that the Atlantic Monthly is a serious magazine not given to right-wing conspiracy theories, it is remarkable they published this.