I’ve been working on a book off and on for the last year or so. The working title is Renewing the Conservative Imagination . My thesis is that our age is defined by an antinomian conviction. If we will but be free from moral norms, then we will be happy. Put differently, our age is Bohemian. . . . . Continue Reading »
The movie, “True Grit,” is the drama of a small but relentless coterie of citizens, instigated and led by Miss Mattie, to gain justice for the murder of her horse trading father, by the coward, Chaney, down in the Arkansas territory sometime after the ‘civil’ war. It is . . . . Continue Reading »
We have discussed here how radical environmentalists and global warming hysterics have extolled China’s tyrannical one-child policy as a model for the West to follow. In addition to being despotic, a side effect of formal population control—at least in China—has been explicit . . . . Continue Reading »
Franciscan brothers from the Bronx settle in a rough Irish town . “And we were shown this area Moyross and it seemed like a perfect place: there were burnt out houses there was graffiti on walls there dogs and horses wandering around aimlessly sometimes kids wandering around,” said . . . . Continue Reading »
The folks at Electric Literature test to see if if any of last year’s door-stopper novels are also bullet-stoppers. (Via: Tablet ) . . . . Continue Reading »
I read a piece in the Washington Post by Norm Ornstein last week, in which he thinks he cleverly hoisted conservatives on the death panel petard. Arizona—as we have discussed—and now Indiana Medicaid, refused treatments (in the latter’s case because, the state claimed, it is . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s second ” On The Square ” column, Gerald Hiestand, an evangelical pastor, describes a uniquely modern Christian dilemma: the unsettling schism between pastors and theologians. While the history of Christianity encourages the view that pastor and theologian are part of . . . . Continue Reading »
The last two years have profoundly undermined popular support for GWH. Climategate, contradictory—and always DIRE!—predictions by scientists, false prophesies, explicit anti humanism (which was what attracted me to this as an SHS issue), bad economies, etc., have taken the issue . . . . Continue Reading »
Casual sex doesn’t exist , says biological anthropologist Helen Fisher: Question: Can casual sex trigger love? Helen Fisher: I think that all three of these brain systems can interact with one another, particularly when you have sex with somebody. Any kind of sexual stimulation of the . . . . Continue Reading »
In his column today , Ross Douthat captures well the paradox of how we view the fetus today in America: In every era, there’s been a tragic contrast between the burden of unwanted pregnancies and the burden of infertility. But this gap used to be bridged by adoption far more frequently than it . . . . Continue Reading »
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