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"Students Urged To 'Set The Standard' At 3rd Annual BP Journalism Conference," Evangelical News (Oct. 13, 2003)
Originally a press release, credited to Baptist Press News (http://bpnews.net). I clipped this because of the quotation from Barbara Bradley Hagerty, the journalist who recently wrote a story for NPR describing a so-called "bitter rift" between "new" and "old" atheists, with the former meaning Dawkins, Hitchens, et sim. (http://j.mp/4yTNmB). Turns out Hagerty is an evangelical Christian and the story has been decried by atheist bloggers.
William Langewiesche Archive | vanityfair.com
One of the heroes of contemporary non-fiction writing, in my opinion.
William Langeswiesche, "The Lessons of ValuJet 592," The Atlantic Online (March 1998)
Archived: http://sqrl.it/?8v8ss and http://www.webcitation.org/5kHrqjV7p
Ron Suskind, "Why Are These Men Laughing? (on Karl Rove)," Esquire (August 13, 2007, orig. pub. Jan. 2003)
Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5kHnEQxTQ
Synagogue-dweller is last remaining Jew in Afghanistan | Mail Online
The article doesn't say much, but the photos are pretty amazing.
Ron Suskind, "Without a Doubt," The New York Times (Oct. 17, 2004)
Webcite: http://www.webcitation.org/5kFWxrqmd
Iterasi: http://sqrl.it/?46up7
Flight 93 memorial visitors creating 'collective memory'
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette profiles sociologist of religion Alexander Riley's work on the Flight 93 memorial near Shanksville, PA.
Justice Ginsburg, Eugenics, & Feminist Criticism of Planned Parenthood - Ginsburg eugenics - Jezebel
The patriotic duty to die » GetReligion
GetReligion's MZ Hemingway on a recent NYT editorial in the Times by Peter Singer. In the op-ed, Singer discusses the idea of "rationing" health care, saying that it is basically inevitable, whether the rationing is done by the government or by insurance companies. Hemingway identifies this, somewhat bizarrely in my view, with a new vogue for "eugenics." I find the post (like all Hemingway's posts) to be little more than a conservative opinion piece, and I don't get how it jibes with GetReligion's mission. But it's worth thinking about. I think that what Hemingway (and many other critics of the current health-care reform discussions) finds objectionable is the idea that the rationing process will be made visible and intentional, instead of being left to impersonal (and basically invisible) market forces -- or, more to the point, instead of being left to the fictional "individual" who supposedly is now in charge of his or her own care. Everyone knows that individuals' health-care decisions are dependent on financial considerations, and that rich people get better care than poor people. Apparently, though, that state of affairs, for Hemingway and others who hold similar views, is somehow fairer than launching an open, values-based discussion about how health care ought to be distributed. Instead, using the language of rationing and individual rights, they seem to be implying that under the current system, health care is essentially unlimited -- everyone can have as much as they can afford -- and that individual people are making fully-free decisions about their care, unaffected by material constraints.
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