Confidence and Delusion
Nick Kristof hits on one of the most bizarre aspects of the health care debate: the inability even to agree that there is a problem in the first place: We have the greatest health care system in the...
View ArticleThe Fierce Urgency of Something
Even by off-cycle election standards, this was an odd one. Perhaps it’s just payback for such a good election last year. I’ll trade watching Chris Christie do his Sopranos impression for never having...
View ArticleTheology
My knowledge of theology is rather limited, but I was quite surprised to see this comment from a Catholic bishop: The Catholic Church does not teach that government should directly provide health...
View ArticleShould Be So Lucky
Successful politics requires a great deal of luck, perhaps nowhere more so than in the talents of your adversaries. Margaret Thatcher might have been a short-lived prime minister trying to pick up the...
View ArticleMore Politics
The Republicans nominate a female, lightweight, corrupt, vindictive, creationist, pro-life secessionist first-term governor who at best seems to have a weak understanding of any distinction between...
View ArticleCelibacy and the Church
You lot are a fairly well-informed group, so maybe one of you will know this. I have read in a few places, though in very little detail, that the celibacy of the priesthood is a thousand-year-old...
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