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June 2017

June 15, 2017

Why buy?

On Sunday, the Tribune featured an article on millennials choosing to rent rather than buy...

June 14, 2017

On Trump Derangement Syndrome

It's time to stop. It's time to acknowledge that your political opponents are not Evil...

June 13, 2017

Child Marriage and Christians

Nicholas Kristoff has a column in the New York Times on child marriage -- not...

June 13, 2017

Can you self-insure Family Leave?

The AEI-Brookings Working Group on Paid Family Leave has come up with a family leave proposal,...

June 12, 2017

The Attorney Generals’ Unserious Crusade

The Washington Post reports today that Attorneys general for the District of Columbia [Karl A....

June 09, 2017

My foreign-American food anecdotes

Megan McArdle has a food post up today, on her experience of a Frenchified hamburger....

June 09, 2017

Did Bernie Sanders (attempt to) impose a religious test?

It would seem so, given the manner in which he questioned Russell Vought, President Trump’s...

June 08, 2017

Who’s been to a presidential museum?

I have a draft post waiting for my attention, about the coming Obama museum, and...

June 08, 2017

Comey hearing open thread

I'm just not paying any attention to this. Yeah, I know, I should be, but...

June 07, 2017

Oh, fun – Medicaid for all!

That's what's on tap in Nevada, though there are few details available at the moment....

June 06, 2017

More virtual candles

You're pretty much used to it by now: terrorists attack, whether with guns or bombs...

June 03, 2017

We’re getting multi-culturalism all wrong

What follows is, ahem, a load of covfefe, but it's something I was thinking about...

June 02, 2017

Climate, Culture, Principles, And “In the Company of Syria”

We want an Agreement, a Treaty, to have a clear path, a practical impact, and...

May 2017

May 27, 2017

Wanted: fundraising advice

Here's a request that's got nothing to do with politics, or Catholicism, or any...

May 26, 2017

Fact-checking California’s Single Payer proposal

In the news today, the California State Senate passed its universal healthcare bill. Here's the...

May 25, 2017

How Does a Pope Greet a President?

A part of our contemporary American culture is that one smiles for photographs or upon...

May 24, 2017

The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad budget “cuts”

Yes, you've heard by now: Trumps' budget cuts government spending for the needy and will...

May 23, 2017

“[His] death cannot go by with no meaning at all.”

The front-page story in today's paper: "Naperville teen's senseless tragedy: 'They scared him to death'."...

May 22, 2017

Wishful thinking isn’t enough: the demise of tracking at Illinois high schools

Let me tell you about the course offerings at my son's high school: For math,...

May 18, 2017

Chicago celebrates a terrorist

Yes, indeed, while on the one hand Chicago is fretting about violence on its streets,...

May 15, 2017

So, President Pence, eh?

The latest report is that Trump revealed to the Russian foreign minister highly classified information...

May 12, 2017

Girl Boy Scouts, update

So you know that whole argument about whether the Catholic church must preserve its ancient...

May 11, 2017

From the library: The New Koreans, The Story of a Nation, by Michael Breen

How much do you know about Korea? Had you asked me that, before reading this...

May 10, 2017

What’s the purpose of an aquarium?

Is it to educate and inform, that is, is there a public service mission, in...

May 07, 2017

So about “couples for whom NFP doesn’t work” . . .

How much money, if devoted to research with a different objective, would it take to...

May 05, 2017

What’s the deal with Trumpcare and pre-existing conditions?

It's surprisingly difficult to get a good picture of what's going on in the new...

May 05, 2017

You won’t believe what I have to say in this post

I am outraged, outraged, I tell you, at the fact that Donald Trump seemed to...

May 03, 2017

Please sign! A petition on NFP effectiveness

The Catholic Church's teachings on contraception is not something I'm inclined to get on a...

May 02, 2017

Was the Civil War “worth it”?

So let's talk about the Civil War. The simple explanation of the war is that...

May 02, 2017

The perils of the diversity crusade

From the College Fix last week: According to a university [of Wisconsin, Madison] document obtained this...

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