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Thursday, December 22, 2011

St. Nicholas

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Theologian James Parker offers us a brief history of the original Santa Claus and how the myths around him grew. Here's an excerpt: Mo...

Microfinance on Christmas

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Looking for a way to help the working poor this Christmas? Give microfinance a look. I'm partial to a group called Kiva , but there are ...

Throw Them All Out

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You know there's something wrong when people go to Washington, earn a salary of $174,000 a year for a dozen years or so and are suddenly...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Winter Wanderers

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Winter often brings rare avian vagrants to the Middle Atlantic states and the last couple of weeks have been especially kind to those of us ...

Making Philosophy Matter

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Lee McIntyre, a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a lecturer in philosophy at Sim...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Missing Bush

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Syrian protestors, having seen thousands of their countrymen, including hundreds of children, massacred by their government in Damascus, exp...

RNA Interference and Naturalistic Fideism

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Here's a fascinating video which shows the incredible, breath-taking complexity of the chemical machinery of every living cell. What is ...

Respecting Women

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A couple of weeks ago Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed indignation over the fact that in Israel some Orthodox Jews object to me...
Monday, December 19, 2011

Intuiting Evil

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Matthew B. O’Brien is a post-doctoral fellow at Villanova University who has written a fine piece in The Public Discourse that deals with t...

Vaclev Havel

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Vaclev Havel passed away yesterday after a long battle with cancer and related illnesses. Like every other human being Havel had his flaws,...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Rich Man, Poor Man

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It has been a frequent asseveration here at VP that American poverty is like nothing else the world has ever seen in that our poor are unima...

The Problem With American Education

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Mark Twain once said that there are thousands of people hacking at the branches of evil but very few hacking at the roots. He could have bee...

How They Did It

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In an exclusive story in the Christian Science Monitor an Iranian engineer explains how the Iranians managed to hijack a top-secret America...
Friday, December 16, 2011

How to Sound Like a Complete Doofus

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There's a conviction among many liberals that conservatives have no heart and a similar conviction on the right that liberals have no br...

Why Not Newt?

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I can't remember an election when the Republican front-runner claimed to be a conservative and yet was so vigorously opposed by so many ...

Christopher Hitchens

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We've had numerous occasions to mention Christopher Hitchens on these pages over the years. He was a brilliant writer and speaker, despi...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Plantinga's New Book

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Jennifer Schuessler of the New York Times has a fine piece on one of the most consequential philosophers of the last half century, Alvin Pl...

Rape of the Soul

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Several posts in recent days have centered around the moral predicament postmodern man finds himself in having discounted the existence of a...

Normalizing Pedophilia

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Janice Shaw Crouse, the author of "Children at Risk," reveals in the Washington Times the agenda of organizations which are lobby...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Electrified Embryos

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We've all learned that DNA programs the cell to create the thousands of proteins the body needs to develop and flourish, but how do thos...