What’s Wrong with the World

Lydia McGrew

Lydia McGrew is a housewife and home schooling mother living in the Midwest. She has a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University (1995), but nearly all of her published work has been in analytic philosophy, with specialties in epistemology and probability theory. She has recently published Internalism and Epistemology: The Architecture of Reason (Routledge, 2007) with her husband, Tim McGrew. Blogging in defense of conservative and unfashionable political positions is one of her hobbies.

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Articles

• Josh McDowell [hearts] Sharia, July 22, 2010
• Next Dearborn Video, July 20, 2010
• Dearborn video footage--egregious violations of constitutional rights, July 17, 2010
• Does Bart Stupak Read the News?, July 14, 2010
• Update on Dearborn, July 13, 2010
• Mayor of Dearborn: Anti-Muslim motives unconstitutional, July 11, 2010
• Tiny Minority of Extremists, July 7, 2010
• Rule of law thrown out the window in British thug acquittal, July 6, 2010
• Correcting the biases of old books, July 2, 2010
• Department of Information--Who You Gonna Trust?, June 30, 2010
• Ignorance is Bliss (or The Arrogance of Ignorance), June 27, 2010
• Full Service Suicide Clinic Comes to Oregon [Updated], June 24, 2010
• Addenda on the Dearborn missionaries, June 24, 2010
• Sharia heating up in Dearborn [Updated below the fold], June 21, 2010
• A tribute to fathers, June 20, 2010
• Choice Devours Itself--Murderous UK doctor breaks his silence, June 18, 2010
• From the "women can do it all" file, June 14, 2010
• Alvin Plantinga to Christian philosophers, June 9, 2010
• Pro-Life Suites: Expensive lives, June 7, 2010
• Art, literature, morality, and other small subjects, June 5, 2010
• Cardiologist to patient: "How about killing yourself, old chap?", June 1, 2010
• Not ready for civilization--Muslim medicos to be allowed long sleeves in UK, May 28, 2010
• Rifqa Bary suffering from cancer--surgery this Thursday, May 24, 2010
• Choice devours itself--Flanders doctors killing the elderly without consent, May 24, 2010
• Draft article now available on miracles and history, May 17, 2010
• Do You Feel Safe?, May 12, 2010
• What?? No praying over meals at senior center? [Updated], May 10, 2010
• Choice devours itself--Forced abortions for minors, May 8, 2010
• Civil Disobedience--Test Case, May 4, 2010
• Cranky Cons (including me), April 30, 2010
• The Young Blog, April 28, 2010
• That cannibalism example (Updated), April 27, 2010
• Pure Philosophy of Religion, April 26, 2010
• Free trade is changing all that, right?, April 23, 2010
• Focus FFumbles, April 21, 2010
• If you thought meat offered to idols was just a 1st century issue, April 18, 2010
• Useful idiots, April 14, 2010
• Libya vs. The Rest of the World, April 12, 2010
• In praise of obscurantism, April 9, 2010
• Recommending Human Life Review [Updated below the fold], April 7, 2010
• Rifqa Bary Update: Judge drags heels on necessary order for immigration filing, April 5, 2010
• Christ the Lord is Risen Today, April 4, 2010
• Good Friday, April 2, 2010
• Population control chic--Maybe they could call it "a tax", March 30, 2010
• Suffering and the Death of God, March 28, 2010
• Absolutely and utterly ridiculous [Updated], March 25, 2010
• Enumerated Shmenumerated, March 23, 2010
• Prayer to stop the healthcare disaster, March 21, 2010
• Boulder Catholic school refuses to be co-opted, March 20, 2010
• Not quite right, March 16, 2010
• The ascension and the "objective vision" theory of the resurrection, March 11, 2010
• Dutch to the Elderly: Just Die Already, March 10, 2010
• Feminism, Traditionalism, Professionalism, March 5, 2010
• Update on Rifqa Bary, March 3, 2010
• The Republican Unicorn, February 24, 2010
• And this is science?, February 21, 2010
• Preemptive whining on behalf of Muslim murderers--Does it work?, February 19, 2010
• Allen West and Charles Martel--Warriors for the West, February 18, 2010
• Brian Williams may be charged for helping Rifqa Bary, February 16, 2010
• We are His sheep, but not His cattle, February 13, 2010
• American independence, Europe, and home schooling, February 5, 2010
• What We're Reading--Gilead, February 3, 2010
• Hate speech against the elderly, January 28, 2010
• The difficulties of religious freedom, January 25, 2010
• Roe v. Wade--37 years, January 22, 2010
• The APA's new non-discrimination policy--Guest post by Troy Nunley (posted by Lydia), January 21, 2010
• Rifqa Bary Update--Good news, though still isolated, January 19, 2010
• More on evidentialism and Christianity, January 17, 2010
• Let's ditch the criminal punishment model of immigration restriction, January 15, 2010
• A nominalism you must refuse, January 9, 2010
• How do you spell 'abomination'?, January 4, 2010
• Star Gazing update and encouragement, January 3, 2010
• Descent Into Hell, the Internet, and the prison of the self, January 2, 2010
• Art Rehabilitation vs. Jihad--place your bets, gentlemen, December 28, 2009
• Brilliant satire from the Lutheran side, December 27, 2009
• Merry Christmas--quotation miscellany, December 24, 2009
• Rifqa Bary--Another hearing, another month closer to 18, December 22, 2009
• There is no such thing as not guilty by reason of ideology, December 21, 2009
• Infanticide, December 17, 2009
• Liberaltarianism's child problem--with examples, December 15, 2009
• Latest development--Rifqa Bary's parents' attorney trying to get her Christmas cards seized, December 11, 2009
• Population control chic II, December 10, 2009
• Personal plug for our own photographic genius, December 10, 2009
• Zip code correction for Rifqa Bary cards, December 9, 2009
• How does Huckabee sleep at night?, December 8, 2009
• Trenchant commentary, December 6, 2009
• Looking for a chart--Updated, December 3, 2009
• No content-neutral perception of ideology, November 29, 2009
• Rifqa Bary updates and suggestions, November 29, 2009
• Three cheers for recycling (Happy Thanksgiving), November 25, 2009
• The ultimate abandonment (Pro-life suites--suicide), November 22, 2009
• Interview on James Allen about the culture war, etc., November 20, 2009
• Adoption, November 15, 2009
• Sunday break--The white stallions of Vienna, November 15, 2009
• A military specialization area: Not learning from experience, November 14, 2009
• Let's be sure not to learn anything from this, now, November 8, 2009
• Speak now or forever hold your peace, November 7, 2009
• What would J.S. do? [Updated], November 5, 2009
• One good, one bad, November 3, 2009
• Rifqa Bary Updates at Extra Thoughts, October 31, 2009
• Population control chic, October 26, 2009
• Equality of opportunity and equality of outcome, October 23, 2009
• Rifqa Bary Update--Rifqa to be returned to Ohio, October 23, 2009
• The state can make almost anybody its employee?, October 16, 2009
• Chris Klicka--RIP, October 14, 2009
• Rifqa Bary Update, October 13, 2009
• Nanny Notes from the State of Michigan, October 10, 2009
• Two little-known facts about organ transplant, October 8, 2009
• Just don't resist, and maybe they'll be merciful, October 7, 2009
• Postmodern Death--Updated below the fold, October 2, 2009
• Do dogs go to heaven?, September 27, 2009
• Assisted suicide legalized in the UK, September 25, 2009
• Frum vs. Smith on Sunstein, September 23, 2009
• To Make you See: Conrad, Eliot, Lewis, and one other, September 20, 2009
• Golfin' with alligators, September 19, 2009
• Michael Bauman on the 1960's, September 15, 2009
• Rifqa Bary update--Parents file case in Ohio to try to get her back, September 14, 2009
• RIP William P. Alston, September 13, 2009
• 63-year-old pro-lifer gunned down; local teen says punching him would have been sufficient, September 12, 2009
• Pro-Life Suites: A response to two articles on ANH--Updated (below the fold), September 8, 2009
• We're all relativists now--News from the North, September 6, 2009
• Orwell alert--"Medically necessary" now includes "fair utilization", September 5, 2009
• Rifqa Bary to stay in Florida for now--Updated, September 3, 2009
• "Go the Distance", September 2, 2009
• Rest Eternal Grant Unto Him, O Lord, August 29, 2009
• Bad news for home schooling out of New Hampshire, August 27, 2009
• Credit where it's due--and blame where it's due, August 23, 2009
• Would Obamacare pay for abortions?--Updated (see below the fold), August 20, 2009
• And now for something completely different, August 15, 2009
• Pray for Rifqa Bary, August 12, 2009
• More from Esolen on boys, August 10, 2009
• Will we be allowed to do anything for boys and men?, August 7, 2009
• A blatant advertisement for parents, August 5, 2009
• Against gender-neutral language, August 3, 2009
• Why discrimination must be legal, July 30, 2009
• Note to the elderly: Just say no to top-down end-of-life rationing, July 29, 2009
• Youth Leader from the Black Lagoon, July 28, 2009
• There is no "them", July 26, 2009
• Obama is not a nice guy, July 22, 2009
• Non-profits and political speech, July 20, 2009
• What We're Reading--"Little Gidding", July 15, 2009
• Robert Spencer's Excellent answer to fact-free criticism, July 14, 2009
• Utterly beyond the pale, July 11, 2009
• Christian evangelization of Muslims forbidden in Dearborn--Part II, July 8, 2009
• Evidential ammo for the Christian soldier, July 7, 2009
• A Providential Irony, July 4, 2009
• Welcome Michael Liccione, July 3, 2009
• Does Maine have Hate Speech laws?, July 2, 2009
• At the 11th Hour, the Cardinal seems to get it right, June 27, 2009
• Family Values comes to medical ethics--Conservatives, do not fall for this, June 25, 2009
• Christian evangelization of Muslims forbidden in...Dearborn, June 22, 2009
• 'Tis respectability doth make cowards of us all, June 19, 2009
• Texas lawmaker introduces Steve Pinker infanticide law, June 18, 2009
• Wrongful birth suits are back, June 16, 2009
• Pascal's Wager and dying to live, June 15, 2009
• Something right with the world--FMER, an excellent conference, June 14, 2009
• More on Boston Caritas Christi and abortion, June 4, 2009
• Men's faults, women's faults, and feminism, May 30, 2009
• The Joys of multicultural society, coming soon to an apartment building near you, May 26, 2009
• The things which belong unto thy peace, May 24, 2009
• Some recent philosophical work, May 22, 2009
• Why I don't teach my kids that Santa Claus is real, May 20, 2009
• Stop Muslim immigration for the sake of parental rights, May 13, 2009
• The next stage in the culture war, May 7, 2009
• What would referring for abortions mean?, May 6, 2009
• Pay no attention to those neural firings behind the curtain, April 30, 2009
• The End of a Consensus, April 28, 2009
• Two rants on PC-speak, April 20, 2009
• "Nobody is Pro-Abortion", April 18, 2009
• Stanley Fish--Still one of the bad guys, big-time, April 14, 2009
• Alleluia! He is Risen!, April 12, 2009
• J.R.R. Tolkien on Douglas Kmiec, April 11, 2009
• Good Friday--He Trusted in God that He Would deliver Him, April 10, 2009
• Free and Equal Superman brings down Catholic religious orders, April 5, 2009
• Coercion for doctors to come to California?, March 31, 2009
• Science and the optimistic naturalist, March 30, 2009
• Hear Hear!!, March 27, 2009
• Recommending Skyglobe, March 25, 2009
• Money Corrupts, March 20, 2009
• Pavlischek tweaks a few noses on the counterpetition, March 18, 2009
• The low man is so very low..., March 14, 2009
• Schiavo trial transcripts now on-line, March 10, 2009
• Choice devours itself--the bottom of the hill?, March 6, 2009
• Something is better than nothing, March 4, 2009
• A conjecture, March 1, 2009
• Counterpetition up and running, February 27, 2009
• Infanticide and the hog-tied prosecutor, February 26, 2009
• The church of Liberalism sends out a new encyclical, February 23, 2009
• UK social services persecute teen convert from Islam to Christianity, February 22, 2009
• Population control Nazis in the news again, February 14, 2009
• Kill the Messenger, February 13, 2009
• Eluana Englaro has passed away, February 9, 2009
• Eluana Englaro update--faint hope, February 6, 2009
• A different view of St. Michael, February 5, 2009
• Eluana Englaro to be dehydrated to death, February 4, 2009
• Shouldn't Dawkins now say that Darwinian evolution has been refuted?, February 3, 2009
• Pledging allegiance to Beloved Leader in Nevada, February 3, 2009
• Whose souls condemned and dying were precious in thy sight, February 2, 2009
• Two Scotts with two great lines, January 28, 2009
• Resistance is futile, January 24, 2009
• For uneasy nights, January 20, 2009
• Does Affirmative Action hurt real people?, January 14, 2009
• Man with Down's Syndrome "accidentally" starved to death in UK hospital, January 9, 2009
• Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, 1936-2009, January 8, 2009
• And now, to lighten up your day: The Porpoise-Driven Life, January 5, 2009
• The difficulty about asylum (even when it's for real), January 4, 2009
• Does Silence Give Consent? or Why the Blogosphere Separates Natural Allies, December 31, 2008
• December 26--Pray for the persecuted church, December 26, 2008
• Merry Christmas, December 24, 2008
• Thanks to Mere Comments, December 17, 2008
• Custody of the Mind, December 16, 2008
• Telling children about evil, December 13, 2008
• FOCA forcing with federal funds, December 5, 2008
• To whom do we belong?, November 29, 2008
• Happy Thanksgiving, November 27, 2008
• Who considers this outrageous?, November 25, 2008
• Lauren Richardson saved, November 23, 2008
• A Miscellany of Resistance, November 19, 2008
• Soul-Losing Risk-Taking, November 16, 2008
• Fighting for their faith?, November 12, 2008
• Where's my referral?, October 28, 2008
• New blog by a pro-life physician, October 27, 2008
• A Few Good Men, October 25, 2008
• Election season comic relief, October 24, 2008
• The Amazing Disappearing Embryo, October 22, 2008
• Time for Civil Disobedience in Victoria, Australia, October 20, 2008
• The closet is your private place, redux, October 16, 2008
• Prolife issues--Assisted suicide in nursing homes in Switzerland, October 11, 2008
• A Dissent from CSL on love and marriage, October 5, 2008
• Pro-life issues--suicide and profiting from one's crime, October 1, 2008
• Michaelmas, September 29, 2008
• Have economic questions; will listen to answers, September 25, 2008
• What We're Reading--A Severe Mercy, September 24, 2008
• The Fallacy of the Clickable Universe, September 20, 2008
• "You're free to choose--Just don't do anything I wouldn't do.", September 13, 2008
• Pro-Life Suites Part I--Infanticide, September 5, 2008
• What should a stigma on illegitimacy mean?, September 4, 2008
• Miscellaneous thoughts on Burton-Auster-McGrew, September 4, 2008
• A rad political idea--Would require constitutional amendment, August 31, 2008
• Corruption and the cost of compromise, August 22, 2008
• Rushing organ donation for the sake of "ethics", August 20, 2008
• CA home schooling ruling reversed, August 9, 2008
• Okay, I believe in exploitation. Now what is it?, August 8, 2008
• Great video clip on government and education, August 5, 2008
• Is "Jesus rose from the dead" a self-committing proposition?, July 31, 2008
• How Planned Parenthood Empowers Women, July 25, 2008
• Are we 40% radicio?, July 22, 2008
• Writing and voting for abortion laws with exceptions, July 14, 2008
• The feminine mind and the culture of assessment, July 8, 2008
• Prayers to Allah come to UK Public Schools, July 5, 2008
• God bless America, July 4, 2008
• Serious questions about brain death in new article, June 29, 2008
• Something right with the world--Spotlight on Lilies Apparel, June 22, 2008
• Legal addendum on California Home schooling case, June 17, 2008
• Bible preaching forbidden in Birmingham, England in Muslim areas, June 4, 2008
• On letting parents teach their kids pernicious ideas, June 1, 2008
• What is a vote?, May 29, 2008
• Passing quotas, May 23, 2008
• All Things Wise and Wonderful, May 18, 2008
• An encomium to ziploc bags, May 11, 2008
• Happy Birthday to W4, May 11, 2008
• This is not what capitalism should be, April 27, 2008
• It's fine for God (and us) to push around molecules, April 19, 2008
• Plotting to save the humanities, April 10, 2008
• Mark Pickup does not submit, April 3, 2008
• Winners of the anti-pomo bumper sticker contest, April 1, 2008
• Anti-Postmodern Bumper Sticker Contest, March 29, 2008
• Happy Easter, March 22, 2008
• Can you try to murder a dying man?, March 21, 2008
• There oughtta be a law--isn't there already?, March 18, 2008
• Religion in the Public Square--How can they try to keep it out?, March 13, 2008
• Annotated bibliography of historical apologetics on line, March 8, 2008
• Some bad news for California home schoolers, March 6, 2008
• The Onion--Waiting period for purchasing suicide vests?, February 29, 2008
• Not ready for civilization--the next chapter, February 26, 2008
• Two stories with happy endings, February 25, 2008
• Update: Javona Peters not dehydrated to death, February 15, 2008
• Choice devours itself--again, January 24, 2008
• Should Christian virgins be vying for sex-object status?, January 21, 2008
• Elizabeth Goudge's novels, January 15, 2008
• Just for fun--Never try to buffalo a Buffalo buffalo, January 10, 2008
• Equality before the law, January 6, 2008
• Father wavers on dehydrating daughter to death, December 29, 2007
• PRI continues to help innocents in China, December 28, 2007
• The Tale of the Ten Cossacks and the Brave Little Waiter, December 14, 2007
• To face unafraid the plans that we made, December 5, 2007
• Are there any mere symbols?, November 29, 2007
• New information requires rethinking on the ethics of making pluripotent cells, November 23, 2007
• Happy Thanksgiving, November 21, 2007
• "A Cumulative Case for the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth"--Now available in draft, November 17, 2007
• NRLC endorses...Fred Thompson?, November 14, 2007
• Giving a whole new meaning to 'negligent'...and 'evil', November 8, 2007
• Non-discrimination goes even more ideological, November 8, 2007
• Welcome to Frank Beckwith, November 6, 2007
• Fred Thompson Comes out of the Closet, November 5, 2007
• Why you shouldn't send your child to live on-campus at a secular university: Reason #2,387, November 1, 2007
• Not Ready for Civilization, October 29, 2007
• Rick Warren Tells Lies?, October 27, 2007
• Bob the Tomato Saves a Life, October 25, 2007
• Against ANT-OAR, October 19, 2007
• No Pediatricians, October 14, 2007
• Blame Debbie Schlussel's cousin, October 12, 2007
• Gotta Love It, October 4, 2007
• Repeal the Endangered Species Act, October 3, 2007
• Behind the Ate Ball, September 26, 2007
• Called it in the air, September 23, 2007
• A Muslim Miscellany, September 16, 2007
• Gratitude, September 4, 2007
• And another thing..., September 1, 2007
• Some more heads for the moat, August 26, 2007
• Conservatism and the Integrity of the Professions, August 11, 2007
• And now for some good news, July 28, 2007
• Incommensurable Evils, July 23, 2007
• What? I mean, que?, July 12, 2007
• Raindrops on Roses--Part II, July 10, 2007
• Raindrops on roses, July 6, 2007
• Happy 4th of July, July 4, 2007
• One small victory for democracy, June 28, 2007
• On Not Accepting the World, June 25, 2007
• Muslim Foot Basin Update--ACLU says, "No Problem!", June 18, 2007
• Happy Fathers' Day!, June 17, 2007
• U.S. Sharia Watch II--Muslim ceremonial foot basins at U. of M., June 9, 2007
• The Sublime and the Ridiculous, June 7, 2007
• Islam: You can check out any time you like, but you just can't leave, May 30, 2007
• Annie Jacobsen Vindicated (Updated), May 28, 2007
• Let's keep the church political, May 26, 2007
• A Rad idea about 14th Amendment Jurisprudence, May 17, 2007
• Owl at Home, May 12, 2007
• The Nature of Evangelicalism--a difficulty, May 6, 2007
• What's Wrong with the World?--U.S. Sharia watch 1, April 28, 2007
• Good news for Melissa--for now, April 23, 2007