The cover story in the most recent Economist turns a critical eye to the sloppy standards of contemporary scientific scholarship. “Modern scientists are doing too much trusting and not enough verifying,” the article...
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(Note: Guest poster Brian Green from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara...
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In a recent issue, the Chronicle of Higher Education noted that students thought that in class...
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Last week, The New York Times published an article about the case of Juana Villegas, an immigrant...
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Sirach 35:12—14, 16—18 Psalm 34 2 Timothy 4:6—8, 16—18 Luke 18:9—14 Sometimes scriptural texts...
Read MoreAs I drove home this evening, slowly moving down the Van Wyck Highway Service Road, I watched as an older homeless man weaved through traffic begging for help. I pulled what cash I had accessible but he moved over to the next...
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Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Ex 17:8-13; Ps 121:1-2,3-4,5-6, 7-8; 2 Tm 3:14-4:2; Lk 18:1-8...
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Cathleen Kaveny has written an important essay in Commonweal called “The Big Chill:...
Read MoreThe Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) has just released an important report from an ad hoc committee on diversity. The committee calls CTSA members to a deeper commitment to ideological diversity. For the sake of...
Read MoreOver at dotcommonweal, I have posted a lengthy discussion of Fred Hirsch’s The Social Limits to Growth, and the light that this 1970’s overlooked classic sheds on our acute problems of poverty and inequality. Our...
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