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Well, we received our copy of Weigel's The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God yesterday. It's a punchy, easy-to-read job, only 177 pages of text, of which we read 60 in less than an hour. It's meant for a popular

Criminy, all the beer bloggers must be drunk this week. We couldn't find hardly anything worth posting, so we're passing along this link [http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/6537/]. It provides a few generalized facts about the healthiness of beer. We think

Heavier fare than what we normally feature at TDE, but the Claremont Institute has a pretty good article on our society's obsession with "values" that's worth reading. LINK [http://claremont.org/writings/050413voegeli.html]. Excerpt: > The term "values" has become so

A reader sends this along: > Awhile back, you mentioned that Sports Illustrated and ESPN seem to have a pro-homosexuality agenda. I thought you'd like to know about Colin Cowherd's discussion earlier this week about gay NFL football players (like there are more than just a

According to this article [http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Careers/story?id=661009&page=1], ten states have laws that require employers to grant leave time to parents so they can attend their children's school functions. Other states are considering such a law. It's a

We've all heard the party line: AIDS is spreading in Africa due to rampant heterosexuality. According to this article [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Fumento20050414.shtml], that's a myth. Here's an excerpt: > So if vaginal intercourse can't explain the awful

The Boston Globe has a decent article about Nebraska's conservative Catholicism. The lead picture is something that could've been in the religion bashing of Midnight Cowboy, but the text of the article is pretty good, including this quote: "'Some people call us old-fashioned,'

Interesting study shows that college freshmen are highly interested in religion, but by the junior year, their interest shrinks. The classroom does little to encourage religious interest, according to the study, so that might be the culprit. Of course, drinking to the point of vomiting, marijuana, sloth, and raging sex

According to one set of scholars, the need/desire to produce mass quantities of alcohol partially drove primitive cultivation methods. At least we think that's what this poorly-written story is trying to say. LINK [http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/7007]. We realize this type

For those who missed it Tuesday, NYT Op-Ed writer Nicholas D. Kristof laments the mainstream media's continued plummet. LINK [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/opinion/12kristof.html?ex=1113969600&en=aaf01212e79f8410&ei=5070] . Two excerpts: > A recent report from the Pew Research Center,