Sorry, folks, it’s the New York Times again that is the source of our amusement. Today they have a story in the news pages with the following lead: “A bake sale sponsored by a Republican student group at the University of California, Berkeley, has incited anger and renewed the . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter included this in his “First Links” this morning, but I wanted to call readers’ attention again to the fine essay at Public Discourse today by Helen Alvaré, Gerard V. Bradley, and O. Carter Snead, ” Conscience, Coercion, and Healthcare .” It . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s what went through my mind when reading this op-ed by Matthew Avery Sutton, who is bylined as an associate professor of history at Washington State University, and author of Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America . The essay is a bizarre train wreck . . . . Continue Reading »
At NRO today, my friend Bill Simon and I have an article titled ” Mayor Bloomberg and the Soul of American Politics ,” about the mayor’s refusal to make clergy a part of tomorrow’s 9/11. Here’s a sample: It wasnt the difficulty of choice and the possibility . . . . Continue Reading »
A couple of days ago at NRO , the estimable Michael Barone ruminated on the subject of same-sex marriage. He casually professed himself in favor of this revolution in the institution of marriagegiving an extremely bad reason that suggests he has not thought a great deal about . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers of First Things and of this blog are no doubt familiar with Public Discourse , the online journal published by my employer, the Witherspoon Institute . Today PD begins a two-week daily series under the title you see above. As editor Ryan Anderson says, the series looks ahead to . . . . Continue Reading »
The boss around here, R.R. Reno, has a very smart article On the Square this morning: ” Does the Tea Party Have a Religion Problem ?” His criticism of Professors Campbell and Putnam, authors of a recent New York Times op-ed on the Tea Party , is spot on. Except for . . . . Continue Reading »
I learned this morning from a friend of the pastoral letter recently issued by the Right Reverend Lawrence C. Provenzano, the bishop of the Episcopal Church’s Long Island diocese, to be read aloud at all services on Sunday, August 7. The letter, an effort to adapt to the new law . . . . Continue Reading »
Thank you for asking me to speak this evening in support of the Love and Fidelity Network and Grupo Solido. I so admire the young people who have poured their hearts into this work, which is so important to the future of our two countries, and to the health of truly human culture everywhere. I am, I fear, a poor spokesman for the cause to which we are devoted here. By training and experience I am a political scientist, studying laws and institutions, courts and legislatures, political theories and constitutional frameworks… . Continue Reading »
I know that Joe mentioned this piece in his Friday ” First Links ” post, but it bears noticing again: Scott Walter’s column ” Hoyas Whip the Irish ,” at The Catholic Thing. Scott catalogues what he can, in fewer than 1,000 words, of the appallingly un-Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »
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