Dear Friends, What you read on firstthings.com makes a difference. Today we face an increasingly hostile intellectual culture, one that presumes that faith undermines reason, and that religion creates conflict and hostility in society. Our goal is to demonstrate how wrong this prejudice is. We . . . . Continue Reading »
The last Songbook post could have been titled What Martha Bayles Has to Learn from Retro Rock n’ Roll. This post could be titled What Retro Rock n’ Roll Has to Learn from Martha Bayles. The basic lesson: the primitivist aesthetic cultivated by many in the retro scenes, and particularly in . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the reasons my blogging has been light of late is I’ve been trying to catch up with Ralph Ellison. Here at Washington and Lee University, where I currently teach, professors Marc Conner and Lucas Morel put on a fabulous conference this weekend , commemorating the 60th anniversary of . . . . Continue Reading »
1. It looks like many of the delegates selected by Pennsylvania will not be Santorum supporters even if Santorum win the popular vote in his home state. One of the wonders of the race is how little support Santorum has gotten within the institutional Republican Party. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Ferguson of the Weekly Standard is one of the best writers writing. Recently, he took on the “after birth abortion” controversy, which we have dealt with extensively, so no need to revisit the details. But he opens with one of the most scathing criticisms of bioethicists . . . . Continue Reading »
The poor Copts of Egypt. They are under increasing persecution and now their patriarch has died . With Egypt becoming increasingly Islamic, his successor will have to be as shrewd as a serpent and gentle as a dove. Memory eternal. . . . . Continue Reading »
This is good news. The House of Representatives will vote next week to kill the authoritarian Independent Payment Advisory Board, one of Obamacare’s most egregious monstrosities. From The Hill story:Several Senate Democrats up for reelection tell The Hill they haven’t ruled out . . . . Continue Reading »
I predicted this in my annual prognistication: Unless something drastic happens, Vermont’s assisted suicide bill has been killed in committee. Good riddance, says I.Interestingly, the Lieutenant Governor, who would break a tie vote in the Vermont Senate, pushed legalizing . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t publicly endorse candidates, not that it would make a whit of difference if I did. I do try to cast light on issues germane to Secondhand Smoke as they arise. Thus, I defended Rick Santorum twice; first, when he was more right than wrong in his criticism of Dutch . . . . Continue Reading »
Dear Friends, What you read on firstthings.com makes a difference. Today we face an increasingly hostile intellectual culture, one that presumes that faith undermines reason, and that religion creates conflict and hostility in society. Our goal is to demonstrate how wrong this prejudice is. We . . . . Continue Reading »
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