I need to confess something about my contribution to the American Spectator ’s young conservatives symposium . The two points I try to make are, first, that the Right should stop carping about relativism because practically no one on the Left is a relativist anymore, and second, that the . . . . Continue Reading »
Our apologies for not having Constitution Day material here at Postmodern Conservative. I can amend things a little by reporting on the talk held at Washington and Lee University, where the esteemed presidency scholar Michael Nelson spoke. His talk was a general review of what the convention . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend Mark Barrett sent the link to Finding Their Way Back , an interesting report on baseball guru Bill James and the Boston Red Sox. If the writer is right about James, he seems to be a class act. The article will be of most interest to the baseball fans among you, and in particular for Red . . . . Continue Reading »
It seems that Mitt Romney took up —-though admittedly in a private gathering—-the dangerously misleading statistic about how 47 percent of Americans pay no income taxes. I pushed back against this last year after Tom Neven wrote a misguided First Thoughts post on the subject. . . . . Continue Reading »
On September 11, 2012 Beeson Divinity School dean Dr. Timothy George offered a talk called “Loving the Least of These” for the Pastoral Praxis for Life conference. . . . . Continue Reading »
This may seem counter intuitive, but a lawsuit filed in California against Health Net Insurance, for allegedly denying coverage for life-saving medical treatment, illustrates the danger of single payer health coverage. First, the story from the L.A. County Medical Association Press . . . . Continue Reading »
In the midst of both anti-Muslim and anti-Christian sentiments making their way through the media after the recent events in Libya, Yemen, and Egypt, Pope Benedict XVI offers hope for peace and unity, speaking to Catholics, Muslims, and visitors from Syria in his address to the youth in Lebanon . . . . Continue Reading »
The Latin rite of the Catholic Church is today celebrating the feast of St. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621), a Renaissance Jesuit and cardinal, who most notoriously was one of the Inquisitors who condemned Giordano Bruno to be burned at the stake in 1600 and was involved in the first summoning of . . . . Continue Reading »
This weekend’s New York Times Book Review features a critical treatment of Hannah Rosin’s The End of Men . Though there’s presumably no coordination between the book review and the op-ed pages, it still makes for a nice counter to David Brooks’ unfortunate . . . . Continue Reading »
Everyone tends to make fun of the young conservatives who dress like dandies, drink port, go high church, and profess to be monarchists. Not me. First of all, in those rare souls who can pull it off , the effect is sublime. More importantly, even the most callow, self-parodic monarchist phase . . . . Continue Reading »
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