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Author Archives: Heather Mac Donald
Relic veneration in the modern world
The Vatican is warning against “miracle-performing sensationalism” and too enthusiastic a veneration of relics: Even the veneration of relics, [writes Wall Street Journal columnist Francis Rocca, the Vatican correspondent for Religion News Service,] mocked by the Protestant reformers and long … Continue reading
Yale’s feminists: Behaving hysterically
Sixteen Yale students and recent alumni are siccing the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on Yale College, claiming that the college denies girls the “same equal opportunity to the Yale education as their male counterparts,” in the words of … Continue reading
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Karl Popper and the Rapture
It’s odd to observe conventional believers—such as Rush Limbaugh on his radio show today—mock the Rapture proponents. The evidentiary basis for more mainstream propositions about the afterlife and the nature of God is identical to those predicting a Doomsday within … Continue reading
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A new AIDS study; more pressure for AIDS spending
Since 2002, rich nations have given tens of billions of dollars in assistance to poor countries to stop the spread of AIDS; more billions have been spent on drug development. Now, a $73 million study funded by the National Institutes … Continue reading
Magical Thinking Watch: The New York Times calls for more sisterhood, less patriarchy
New York Times movie critic Manohla Dargis treats readers to a brilliant parody of a Women’s Studies major today. Dargis wittily incorporates every chestnut of angry feminist lore in her review of the movie Bridesmaids (which I have not seen). … Continue reading
The emerging counternarrative
John Yoo claims that Obama ordered the killing rather than capture of OBL in order to avoid having to make hard decisions regarding his detention and interrogation: Mr. Obama’s policies now differ from their Bush counterparts mainly on the issue … Continue reading
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What will Rush say?
And Mark Levin and Sean Hannity. Their dilemma is acute: how acknowledge the accomplishment of their decade-long desideratum–the killing of Osama Bin Laden–without giving Obama credit? Arguably, Obama doesn’t deserve credit: he is the beneficiary of the continuous workings of … Continue reading
Civilizational collapse, part 642: Studying the bus schedule in English class–for credit!
Is soullessness a job requirement for “education reformers?” I have never seen evidence to the contrary. The latest travesty to roll out of the ER factory is the so-called “Common Core” state standards initiative, a voluntary set of learning goals … Continue reading
Magical Thinking Watch: Endless Female Victimhood
You might have thought that as research accumulates on the biological aspect of human conduct, radical feminists would have lightened up a bit on their charge of widespread institutionalized sexism, especially since they have dominated the institutions that they finger … Continue reading
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Eric Holder does not play the race card
Federal district court judges are ignoring Congressional sentencing rules regarding crack defendants, but the Justice Department, to its credit, is opposing this judicial rewriting of the law, reports the New York Times’s Adam Liptak. In 2010, Congress narrowed the disparities … Continue reading