In response to my article on polyamory, mentioned in Why Just Two? , Hadley Arkes wrote me with a few comments of his own on the subject, which he’s given me permission to post here. During the hearings over the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, he wrote, he and Robert George had argued . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s a dramatically out-of-context excerpt from my Whitman presentation. Whitman explains that “the democratic republican principle” is “the theory of development and perfection by voluntary standards.” So that principle is less about perfecting the institutions of . . . . Continue Reading »
Let me share just one paragraph of my presentation at the APSA with you. More than that would undermine your incentive to get up early on Sunday. It often seems as if America’s Lockean foundation offered our country a kind of stability that was undermined by the Darwinian theory about the . . . . Continue Reading »
Today I weighed in on the Ground Zero mosque controversy , making a case that it’s not a big deal. A major premise of my argument is that Islam is not all that much of a factor in America. It’s something many of us fail to see, because we misread the behavior of the liberal . . . . Continue Reading »
As proof that we Christians don’t have exclusive rights to the making of cheesy, religious-oriented videos , I give you the National Jewish Outreach Program’s reimagining of Kanye West’s “Gold Digger.” Who knew Rosh Hashanah was inspired by the movie Pay It Forward ? . . . . Continue Reading »
In To Mosque or Not to Mosque , today’s first “On the Square” article, R. R. Reno declares that he doesn’t really care about the controversy over the “9/11 mosque,” and then explains why. “Let’s look at the context,” he writes. America is an . . . . Continue Reading »
First question to ask your doctor: Are you on my HMO? Second question to ask your doctor: Do you believe in God? Atheist doctors are almost twice as likely to take decisions that speed up death for very ill patients as those who are deeply religious, research has found. Those with a strong faith . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest scientific scandal, an internal investigation at Harvard University concludes that Marc D. Hause, their star evolutionary psychologist, is guilty of scientific misconduct for falsifying research on monkeys . Earlier this month, the Boston Globe reported that Hauser, 50, the author of . . . . Continue Reading »
Ken Mehlman, President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, made a shocking confession today in an interview with The Atlantic ’s Marc Ambinger : Privately, in off-the-record conversations with this reporter over the years, Mehlman . . . . Continue Reading »
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