Australia’s spending on cosmetic procedures topped A$1 billion in 2020 for the first time, according to the Cosmetic Physicians College of Australasia. And a clinical psychologist has warned of the dangers of normalising cosmetic procedures. Dr Ben Buchanan, a specialist in body dysmorphia, told news.com.au that people are getting procedures which they might not need. Cosmetic surgery […]
PODCAST: Listen to John Aidan Byrne, Irish commentator based in New York, interview Dr Alden Cass, therapist for CEOs and Stock traderrs MANIA ON WALL STREET: Dr. Alden Cass, therapist for CEOs and stock traders, fears a financial bubble as irrational exuberance returns amidst social isolation and pandemic mental health upheaval. In this […]
The debate over human “enhancement”, or the biotechnological heightening of human abilities, is prominent in bioethics. The most controversial stance is transhumanism, whose advocates urge us to develop biotechnologies enabling the “radical” elevation of select capacities, above all, rationality. Transhumanists insist that their vision of the radical bioenhancement of human capacities is light-years removed from […]
To all those cheering on the 2021 purge, hear the account of a previous target before you pile in, and remember it might be you some day.
In a recent study, Bethany Gull and Claudia Geist identify two paths leading to men’s increased housework participation—one non-religious and egalitarian, the other religious and family-centered. Their results surprised them, as they had expected conservative religious men to have lower housework participation due to their traditional gender ideologies. We were not surprised by their findings. We suggest there […]
The resignation of Damien Duff as the Irish international soccer coach was seemingly a direct consequence of the FAI’s cringing response to a video played by Manager Stephen Kenny’s staff prior to the team’s defeat by England last November. As reported here at the time, the video included footage related to the 1916 Rising and […]
Obviously, he’s not literally a Protestant. You’d hope they’d have noticed that when they interviewed him for the job. But judging by this interview he gave to the Irish Times last week, he’s more a Henry VIII loyalist than a Thomas More man: Dublin’s Catholic archbishop-elect Dermot Farrell has said he would like to see […]
This is now the fourth draft of this article. It is the fourth draft, because in the first three drafts, I had to be very careful what I said. That is because, in this new world that’s emerged over the weekend, you have to be very conscious, on the right, that you’re arguing with one […]
For the last decade or so, those warning of civilizational collapse have been accused of being alarmist. I recently reviewed Rod Dreher’s latest book, Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, and noted that many still believe that a “silent majority” of Americans are opposed to the radicalism of the Left—that eventually, progressives will […]
PODCAST: John Aidan Byrne interviews Christine Soule CAPITALISM FOR THE POOR: Christine Soule on her journey from drug-addicted stripper to Christianity; founder Seattle’s Providence House, author, Broken and Beautiful; and her economic solution for poverty Christine Soule’s life was a jumbled pile of broken pieces. Her father was married seven times; her mother […]
The notion that artistic creativity and emotional state are somehow related goes back to the time of Aristotle. However, it is extremely difficult to quantify the degree of misery (or happiness) of an artist, and even more so if an artist is deceased. In my research I have found a way to do so by extracting the emotional […]
Sagart agus scoláire as Connacht ab ea Naomh Iarlaith, ar a dtugtar Iarladh mac Loga. Cuimhnítear air mar bhunaitheoir scoil mhainistreach Thuama agus Ard-Deoise Thuama, a bhfuil sé ina phátrún anois. Níl aon saol meánaoiseach ann d’ Iarlaith ar marthain, ach i measc na bhfoinsí dá shaol tá ginealais, mairtíreachtaí, Beathaí Naomh Breandán as Cluain […]