Book NotesI’ve just finished reading Philip Lawler’s new book, The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture. It’s an excellent overview of the clergy-abuse scandal, specifically in the degree to which it documents and strongly condemns the corruption of the American hierarchy. But it’s more ambitious, stepping back to take a wider view of… Continue reading
Michael Barone on the removal of Admiral William Fallon from Central Command: Tough questions remain about how civilian commanders should choose and interact with military professionals. Bush’s record, in my view, has been far from ideal. He has seemed content with letting others choose military commanders and then accepting their advice with little of the… Continue reading
Friday ThoughtsSince I spend most of my spare time outside of work either producing videos or working on stories, articles and proposals that I hope to sell to publishers of books and journals, I think of my media log here as just that: nothing ambitious, just a log to quickly reference links to articles, sites… Continue reading
Jason Rosenhouse on the alleged opposition between religion and science: The apparent contradiction is between a view of things that says we are the purposeful creations of an omnipotent, omnibenevolent God, and a view that says that we are the chance result of tens of millions of years of bloody and violent evolution. Yeah, it’s… Continue reading
Casinos Won’t Help Massachusetts. Dan Kennedy: Mr. Liberal has come around to the anti-casino position, but he still wants more data and for “cooler heads to prevail.” I’m not sure why. Patrick’s three-casino proposal is the most damaging idea any governor has come up with in a long time. What’s needed is to defeat it… Continue reading