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Re: Vian's Choice

I appreciated the kind words about me by the editor-in-chief of L’Osservatore Romano in Delia Gallagher’s interview this morning. As readers of my original article in National Review know (the same article mentioned by Vian that was translated for the ...

From MICHAEL NOVAK, The Corner,  17 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Delia Gallagher,  Barack Obama

For Those Who Desperately Need Organ Donations

In the next few weeks, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) will introduce a bill in the Senate that does two things:  (1) Closes off a loophole in the existing law that permitted “transplant tourism”desperate Americans seeking transplants overseas in often ...

From MICHAEL NOVAK, First Things,  1 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Arlen Specter,  Pope John Paul II,  Roman Catholic Church,  Pope Benedict XVI,  American Enterprise Institute

Obama's First Week

From these announcements we learn that President Obama recognizes no difference between the Jewish-Christian covenant between a woman and a man (a covenant that they will have and nurture children, if they are so blessed), and a civil contract between ...

From MICHAEL NOVAK, The Corner,  26 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  E.J. Dionne,  Bill Clinton

March for Life

Has it touched the heart of our first African-American president that the largest single number of the aborted are black children in the womb—13 million of them?  These are children who will never be allowed to achieve the dreams they would have ...

From MICHAEL NOVAK, The Corner,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Michelle Obama

Studying Obama's Rhetoric

The change from President Obama's campaign rhetoric to his presidential rhetoric is striking. The change was, in fact, so abrupt that the vast crowd seemed largely puzzled by it, and applause was neither frequent nor greatly animated—even though the ...

From MICHAEL NOVAK, The Corner,  20 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Truth and Freedom

Human liberty depends on an accurate grasp of the human condition, not as we might like it to be, but as it is: The truth shall set you free. Let us suppose, for instance, a situation in which truth is rendered servile by some contemporary enthusiasm. ...

From MICHAEL NOVAK, First Things,  2 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Thomas Jefferson,  John Adams,  Abraham Lincoln,  George Orwell

The Complementarity of Man and Woman

The brilliant lay philosopher of Judaism, Dennis Prager, has written lucidly about the utter distinctiveness of Judaism among the nations of its time in its understanding of human sexuality. Prager writes: The gods of virtually all civilizations ...

From MICHAEL NOVAK, First Things,  26 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Dennis Prager

The Day My Brother Was Murdered

[Recently, I found the following memoir in my files. It was written, I believe, within a year of the event described. At certain points, I have updated it with new information. --M.N.] ON JANUARY 16, 1964, IN THE MORNING, Father Richard Novak left ...

From MICHAEL NOVAK, American Spectator,  24 Dec 2008

Science and Religion

According to the conventional narrative, science and religion have been at war for some three hundred years. But the reality is deeper and more complex. The English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead wrote in his Science and the Modern World (1925) ...

From MICHAEL NOVAK, First Things,  17 Dec 2008

John Derbyshire Threw Down the Glove (Part II)

The preconception that leads John Derbyshire to all these denials is one of method. His definition of ‘method,’ as best I can discern it, would disallow the truth of any of these three propositions (and others in the Christian narrative). John ...

From MICHAEL NOVAK, The Corner,  25 Sep 2008
Related Topics: John Derbyshire,  Thomas Jefferson

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