A back-and-forth has been taking place between Conor Williams of The League of Ordinary Gentleman and David Sessions of Patrol magazine over the question of whether Christianity can be apolitical. As the exchange was launched in part to avoid re-treading convenient but sloppy terms like . . . . Continue Reading »
Timothy Dalrymple, writing for Patheos , points to an interesting tension in our assumptions about Christianity today. Commenting on John Wilson’s Wall Street Journal “Houses of Worship” series, Dalrymple singled out what he thought to be the most striking paragraph: Consider the . . . . Continue Reading »
CDF vs. Margaret Farley Rocco Palmo, Whispers in the Loggia Generation and Spiration: The Processions of the Trinity Thomas L. McDonald, God & The Machine “As a Practicing Politician . . . ” Matthew Hanley, The Catholic Thing The Botany Club: Gay Kids in Catholic Schools Eve . . . . Continue Reading »
There are many mysterious things about the modern world, but the biggest mystery of all is how “the sexual revolution” is viewed as some sort of feminist triumph, when the objective truth is that if the most despicable, cretinous, woman-loathing men of a century ago had outlined their . . . . Continue Reading »
Just a few more observations on Greek politics so please bear with me, 1. France’s Socialist Finance Minister has warned Greece that if Greece’s government goes back on its agreements to its European lenders, then Greece is looking at expulsion from the Eurozone. This is a . . . . Continue Reading »
This is in the “day-late-and-a-dollar-short” category, but, on Friday, my friend Peter Leithart posted thoughts on his exclusion from the altars of several churches, most notably those of Catholic, Orthodox, and Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod churches. Peter’s substantive argument . . . . Continue Reading »
William Doino Jr. on why Christianity is not for quitters : At his famous Harvard Commencement address in 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarked, “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West.” Thirty-five years later, one could add: . . . . Continue Reading »
My review of Jack Balkin’s book, Living Originalism , has been posted on the Library of Law and Liberty here . Professor Balkin seeks to produce a theory of textualism persuasive to his fellow Progressives. . . . . Continue Reading »
I know Nat Hentoff. Nat Hentoff is a friend of mine. And Wesley, you are no Nat Hentoff.No kidding, Wesley! But I was heartened to read an article exposing the profound intolerance of many on the Left against one of their own because he became pro life. It tells how Nat—who . . . . Continue Reading »
The global warming hysterics like to use selective dating of data and times for measuring and contrasting to make things look hotter than they were. Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, for example, omitted data about the time he was in office. Now, it looks as if evidence has been discovered . . . . Continue Reading »
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