Author: Jon Rowe

In my last post I noted, if one wants to justify (the normally prohibited kinds of) incest (as noted, if you extend “incest” beyond the nuclear family, we are all distant cousins), perhaps one...

Analogies can be tricky things. That’s something that Dr. John Corvino has noted. Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, our old friend EV has blogged about the recent case of the Columbia Professor charged with...

I have an issue with the death penalty on government incompetence grounds. But when there is no doubt that someone has done something like this, I’d like to see a system where we not...

Economist Steve Horwitz kindly pointed to a great little article of his on futurism. I can’t find a thing in it with which I disagree. He writes: But even there it took years for...

The last few hundred years have seen dramatic advances in scientific and technological developments. Yet, when we imagine a future 30 plus years away, we tend to “see” scientific advances arriving prematurely. Folks in...

I like them better with Boz Scaggs than Toto (though the latter has its moments; Steve Lukather is a smokin’ guitarist).

My thoughts on the 30th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. You don’t need me to tell you he was a genius; he was. (So was Paul, but John was better). You don’t need a...

For our Sara Palin critics, check out Jonathan Turley’s take down of her “history.” I’ve crossed paths formally and informally with a number of the names he mentioned. My friend Ray Soller of my...

For those interested,

Jeremy Waldron is probably the foremost authority on the need to give human rights a theological grounding. This paper explores issues with using “Imago Dei” to ground human rights. A taste:

This HBO made movie is worth seeing for Kathy Bates’ performance as Helen Kushnick, Jay Leno’s late manager.

Some enemies of Saul Bellow and friends of Allan Bloom have tried to cast doubt on the idea that Allan Bloom died of AIDS, a fact that Bellow spread in his roman à clef...

I did it in a comment at First Things here. I wrote:

The quality of the recording is not great; but the music is amazing.

Newsweek has an interesting article showing Sam Harris to be more religious than you’d expect. I remember, a little while back, a few of his right wing Christian critics uncovered his affinity for Eastern...

We sell to China a lot more than they buy from us (the US for our foreign readers). They finance a lot of our debt. Hence they hold a lot of US dollars. They...

Of course the answer depends on what the meaning of the term “Christian” is. Here is my post where I explained how libertarians ought to view the religious aspects of the DOI. I wrote:

This dovetails with the most recent post by Mr. Kupp. You may read the whole thing at my other group blog here. A taste:

I can’t tell whether the Inside Edition is running at a higher speed or whether O’Reilly’s voice sounds higher because he’s younger.