Here’s another installment in my “What Was History (with a Capital H)?” The End of History in the strong or revolutionary sense was discredited by the Marxist tyrannies that turned people into history fodder and nothing more. That doesnt mean that we arent surrounded . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Postmodern Conservative , Ivan Kenneally follows First Things ’ contributing writer Yuval Levin’s latest writings on healthcare issues. . . . . Continue Reading »
Perhaps, says David E. Anderson in an interesting review essay on a number of recent books of criticism on the sacramental element in poetry. . . . . Continue Reading »
No, that headline didn’t come from The Onion (or Lark News ) but from this Fox News story on howare you ready for this?some evangelicals are encouraging young people to marry . Despite the eye-rolling headline and being thirty years late in noticing the “evangelicals are . . . . Continue Reading »
Somebody tell Peter Singer: Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing gurgling creature. Still, there has to be some point in development when consciousness isn’t present, and though it is logically . . . . Continue Reading »
Our Lutheran readers might be interested in an upcoming retreat for clergy from the renewal group the Society of the Holy Trinity: The retreat will be September 29 - October 1, 2009, at University of ?St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein (near Chicago), ?Illinois, USA. Members of the . . . . Continue Reading »
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer weigh in on the great health reform debate in USA Today . Beyond the “un American” accusation being widely discussed throughout the blogosphere and on talk radio, thar’s mendacity in them thar hills. Learn more over . . . . Continue Reading »
I admit that I am not a fan of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But the hypocrisy and mendacity of her USA Today column about health care reform (co-authored with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer) is beyond her usual low standards. Time to parse. From their column:Americans have been waiting for nearly a . . . . Continue Reading »