Question the ‘lab leak’ theory. But don’t call it a conspiracy.
A warning: This article will not tell you whether SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab and set off the Covid-19 pandemic, which has now killed more than 5 million people. I’m not even going to tell you if I think it did. If that was your hope, you may want to move onto something else. But […]
Whither the Irish?
The defining, enduring differentia of the Irish – devout Catholicism, hale and hearty national consciousness and those big boisterous Irish families – are gone with the wind. The mystique of Ireland is still with us, though a pallid wisp of what was, once upon a time.
An utterly changed Ireland?
O’Toole argues that Catholic activists, for example, were more interested in appearances than in the messy complexities of real life. He views de Valera’s Ireland as a failed State and legitimately highlights the economic failures and mass emigration of the 1950s.
Does Roe v. Wade tie the hands of the US Supreme Court?
This week the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most controversial case of the year, pitting the state of Mississippi against an abortion clinic. In Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health, the state argues that a 2018 state law banning abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy is constitutional. This bold assertion is […]
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