In the last year, the national polls for the Republican presidential nomination have been led by many different people including the freakish and shameful pseudo-candidacy of Donald Trump. But Republican primary and caucus voters have shown much better judgment than you would think given the . . . . Continue Reading »
Nate Silver explains all the different ways that the Republicans select national convention delegates and the varying degrees to which delegates are bound to support a given candidate. . . . . Continue Reading »
Francis Cardinal George, the Catholic archbishop of Chicago, has a column up warning about four potential consequences of the Free Birth Control Rule on charitable and non profit institutions associated with the Catholic Church. It makes for sad reading because I don’t think Cardinal . . . . Continue Reading »
For the past few years, I have been associated with the Georgia Family Council’s Gaby Fellowship program. It’s a great opportunity for undergraduates and recent graduates to be an integral part of a good organization, gain experience in the world of state-level public policy, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Spring is around the bend, and readers of First Things have probably noticed the advertisement on the website and in the issue announcing that we are now accepting applications for the Junior Fellowship program. Lots can be said about the benefits of being a junior fellow: working closely with the . . . . Continue Reading »
The human cloning agenda has stalled because of what I call the “egg dearth.” Here’s what I mean: Each try at somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloning to manufacture a human being (or, member of the species Homo sapiens, if you prefer) requires a human . . . . Continue Reading »
R.R. Reno on the After Liberalism Seminar : Today, with the support of the Simon/Hertog Fund for Policy Analysis, the Institute on Religion and Public Life, publisher of First Things and host of firstthings.com will gather a group of nearly twenty scholars for the After Liberalism Seminar. Our goal . . . . Continue Reading »
The Immanent Frame is weighing in on the HHS mandate: “We’ve invited a small handful of scholars to comment on how the debate highlights enduring and nascent issues involving claims to multiple rights made in the context of American public life.” The group includes professors . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacare is a debacle. It vests tremendous, unprecedented power into the hands of the executive branch through bureaucratic mandates—such as the anti-Catholic and autocratic free birth control and nearly everything else that can be construed as “reproductive” health mandates. It . . . . Continue Reading »
My beef with Rick Santorum’s 2008 speech before Ave Maria University is not that it was too Christian, but that it was not Christian enough. I love my country, served happily in the military for eight years (full disclosure: in the National Guard), and the hair on my neck still stands up . . . . Continue Reading »
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