By • Nov 20,2008

A Loss of Shared Teleology

Rod Dreher, with a little help from Alasdair MacIntyre, pins the source of the impasse in the gay marriage debate: a loss of a shared teleology, hence much of the...

By • Nov 20,2008

For the love of underpants

A video and song extolling the virtue of “Big Underpants“, aka China Central Television’s physics defying headquarters in downtown Beijing. (H/T to Kelani Chan for the link and translation.)

By • Nov 20,2008

Water on Mars

This sounds like pretty big news: “NASA scientists have discovered enormous underground reservoirs of frozen water on Mars, away from its polar caps, in the latest sign that life might...

By • Nov 20,2008

The Death of Neoconservatism

This article was adapted from remarks delivered at an America’s Future roundtable in Washington on November 19, 2008. American presidential elections are often best read as verdicts on the administrations...

By • Nov 20,2008

Libertarian Thoughts on Prop 8

Richard Epstein: “Today’s harsh skirmishing over Prop 8 starts from the common assumption that the state has the right to issue marriage licenses, so that the only question worth asking...