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Rod Dreher

Physics demigod Stephen Hawking sensibly says we should mind our own business on the subject of extraterrestrial life. Excerpt: Such scenes are speculative, but Hawking uses them to lead on to a serious point: that a few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Hawking believes that contact with such a species could…

I saw a photo from last summer of my sister Ruthie and her daughter Hannah, both glowing from the sun (they were on vacation). And today, Ruthie is devastatingly ill with cancer. I am oppressed by the thought of how quickly everything can change for any of us. Read this heartbreaking account by Melanie Reid,…

Yes, says a Greek economic exile. Excerpt: Upward of 75 percent of Greek businesses are family-owned. Most are small and rely on family labor, which is as flexible as it gets — in practice, no minimum-wage or maximum-hour laws apply. Women often work for their husbands without salary, and divorce laws don’t effectively ensure the…

Here is a college athlete who, by virtue of his heroic deed of acrobatics recorded here, will never lack for girlfriends or someone to pick up his bar tab for the rest of his college career. Awesome doesn’t begin to describe it:

I keep pointing my readers to the Templeton symposium on the question of what reason has to do with morality because it raises so many questions in my mind. From Antonio Damasio’s essay: The mechanisms behind such behaviors [that we identify as moral — RD] can be traced to specific brain systems, neuromodulator molecules, and…

Adventures in modern Christian piety. At the two-minute mark, things really get rolling:On second thought, maybe Torquemada was onto something…UPDATE: Seriously, though, I honestly don’t understand the appeal of this kind of religion. I am not a charismatic, nor do I find charismatic religion appealing, but I absolutely understand the craving for charismatic experience, and…

You’ve heard, I take it, about the new gay character in Archie Comics. I had thought Dilton Doiley might finally open up about his particular friendship with Moose, but no, they’re bringing in a new guy, Kevin Keller. John Podhoretz predicts that “his first act will be to out Reggie.” I certainly hope so. That…

Thought-provoking piece on Slate today about a NOAA report forecasting what’s facing the weather agency between now and 2035. Slate writer Jim Tankersley takes the data and foresees climate-driven social and political change coming down the road. Excerpt: Mass migrations have historically triggered power shifts in American politics–to the West in the late 1800s, to…

Deadly omnisexual spores spreading disease in Washington, Oregon and thereabouts, killing one out of every four people who get the stuff. It’s airborne, and lays into healthy people. More: If C. gattii keeps having sex and spreading, its next victims will mostly likely be in Northern California, where the weather is very similar to Oregon.…

There has been a lot of commentary on the political blogs around the concept of “epistemic closure,” which is a fancy way of saying “closed-mindedness.” The point of discussion has been on whether or not conservatives today are “epistemically closed,” meaning in practical terms, are they willing to consider information and arguments that tell them…
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