Here are two more tributes, one from Sean Curnyn and the other from our former managing editor, Anthony Sacramone . . . . . Continue Reading »
And here I was thinking that I was the only one: . . . . Continue Reading »
In his Erasmus lecture ( featured in the current issue of First Things ), “Christianity Face to Face with Islam,” Robert Louis Wilken makes a generalization that seems unassailably true: Most of the territories that were Christian in the year 700 are now Muslim. Nothing similar has . . . . Continue Reading »
One wonders what Dante would have said about this . . . . . Continue Reading »
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Many conservatives hope political pressure will force Obama to move to the center. There’s indeed good reason to expect that he will pursue a moderate economic and foreign policy, but he seems wholly set on preserving and strengthening the Roe regime and supporting other socially liberal . . . . Continue Reading »
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Only the infinite God can compass Man’s infinite idiocy. “Diogenes” presents us with this choice cut of scholarly nonsense : The head of the history department at Virginia Military Institute suggests that the Apostle Paul may have been spying for the Romans. Rose Mary Sheldon, the . . . . Continue Reading »
The best part of the George Bush Shoe Incident is definitely the President’s priceless one-liner: “I saw into his sole.” That’s about as funny as puns get. If sense of humor is a good rough guide to intelligence, then either Bush is really pretty smart or has a pretty smart . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a warm appreciation of the neglected philanthropists who bankrolled the American conservative movement. . . . . Continue Reading »
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