It is hard not to smile nowadays when someone, inevitably a religious liberal, declares some proposal “prophetic.” It’s so sixties. In today’s “On the Square” article, Too Often Prophetic , I suggest why they shouldn’t use it nearly so much, and why . . . . Continue Reading »
In an interesting new e-book by Carl Trueman called The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Trueman revisits the question originally posed by Mark Noll, but with an emphasis not on the mind of the evangelical, but with the term evangelical itself. Trueman writes,For there to be a scandal of the . . . . Continue Reading »
A few days ago I complained about positive book reviews for a new book that partially involves explicit depictions of sexual intercourse between a chimpanzee and a woman, with the reviewers either lauding the bestiality or praising it with non damnation. I saw the acceptance of bestiality/literary . . . . Continue Reading »
Reading the Week in Review section of the NYT today, I came upon an interesting column about a new computer—dubbed Watson—that its developers hope will rise to the level of AI, defined in the side bar copied above. Watson will soon be in a “Jeopardy” type . . . . Continue Reading »
Today is the anniversary of the most difficult day of my life, February 5, 2008. On that date, an EF-4 tornado tore a jagged slice through the very middle of the campus of Union University, where I teach. I will never forget seeing the funnel cloud crossing the highway a few hundred . . . . Continue Reading »
NYT columnist Gail Collins is upset because many Republicans want to defund Planned Parenthood. But as usual with PP defenders, she whitewashed the problem. From her column:Maybe it’s all part of a grand theme. Last month, they voted to repeal the health care law. This month, they’re . . . . Continue Reading »
The following is today’s instalment of my biweekly column, Deliberation, for Capital Commentary, published by the Center for Public Justice:More than half a century ago the great American journalist Walter Lippmann, in grappling with the dilemmas of democracy, urged the recovery of a public . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The American Autobahn of 1925 would’ve run next door to the White House In 1925, several American highway associations drafted up designs for a six-lane highway running from NYC to Washington DC. This doesn’t sound controversial, but they also decided to plop down the road adjacent to . . . . Continue Reading »
I wasn’t going to say anything about these basically platitudinous remarks , though I concede that I probably couldn’t do all that much better if I were President of the United States and felt compelled to testify to my faith without stepping on any political landmines. But the annoying . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter notes that the Obama Administration is considering whether to require health insurers to pay for contraceptives. Even leaving aside moral objections, this is great foolishness from an economic point of view. To simplify matters, assume that the insurance pool contains 500 male-female . . . . Continue Reading »
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