Founder of the World Youth Alliance and friend of First Things Anna Halpine is chronicling events in Madrid in a “World Youth Day Diary” for Standpoint that you can find on that magazine’s weblog . In her first entry , Halpine suggests that the event is an outgrowth of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Back in June I outlined how to destroy a culture in 5 easy steps : Step #1: From Unthinkable to Radical — The first step is the easiest—provided the issue can become a fetish or the topic of an academic symposium. Since both the professoriate and the perverts have a fascination with the . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column, Joe Carter discusses what conservatives should mean when talking about limited government : There’s an old Cold War-era joke about an ex-Communist who gets into an argument with a young man newly infatuated with Marxism. After the youth repeatedly attempts . . . . Continue Reading »
Why, when I realize that journalists misrepresent topics that I know about, do I trust them to accurately cover issues that I don’t know much about? I’ve thought about that question for years but didn’t realize until yesterday that the late novelist Michael Crichton coined a . . . . Continue Reading »
Sex Ed Mandates and Children’s Innocence Public Discourse , Greg Pfundstein Atheists to put on event at Fort Bragg Washington Times , Tom Breen Want to Live Longer? Turn Off Your TV Time , Alice Park This Isn’t Meddling — It’s Murder The Christian Post , Albert Mohler The . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s the right link to my post on the movie. I actually think the movie adds stuff to our “narrative” about the South—both good and bad—that even Walker Percy misses. And on Ryan: I’m more impressed by the case against him Pete lays out than the case for . . . . Continue Reading »
I have noticed an odd propensity among the generally politically liberal commenters and bloggers on stem cell research. Where some rail against the supposed greed and avarice of the pharmaceutical companies, they praise stem cell researchers to the hilt as altruistic scientific saviors. I never got . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Leithart clears up some of the confusion about what the doctrine of sola Scriptura really means : Now, I imagine that there are people who believe sola Scriptura as Smith describes it, and Protestants have always insisted that Scripture is a sufficient revelation of God’s will for us . . . . Continue Reading »
Talk of Paul Ryan maybe running for President seems to be all over Fox News today. Here are my thoughts: Con: 1. Ryan’s original Roadmap proposal has huge political problems on the taxation side. He seems to have proposed a middle-class tax increase with sharp tax cuts for . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . the rock and roll apparatus affectively organizes the everyday life of its fans by differentially cathecting the various fragments it “excorporates” along these three axes. . . . It involves vectors (quantities having both magnitude and direction) that are removed from the hegemonic . . . . Continue Reading »
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