This is my latest column in Christian Courier, published 10 September. Please subscribe today.Once upon a time the Democratic and Republican Parties were big-tent organizations, trying to appeal to as wide a swath of public opinion as they could manage. Although the Republicans were generally . . . . Continue Reading »
I too can’t believe that Romney is describing VAGUELY the parts of ObamaCare he would keep without launching into an attack in terms of both LIBERTY and SUSTAINABILITY of ObamaCare as a whole. Mrs. Romney, meanwhile, is asked why she wouldn’t let two lesbians marry in the name of . . . . Continue Reading »
Land O’Lakes at 45 Michael McLean, Legatus “This Journey Is Often Impeded by Emotion . . . ” Flannery O’Connor, The American Reader Are Scientists Succumbing to ‘Mission Creep?’ Julian Baggini & Lawrence Krauss, The Guardian The Clown in the Pulpit Jeremy . . . . Continue Reading »
Ian Hamilton, Writers in Hollywood : One day Ben Hecht got a call from Bernie Hyman, MGM production head, asking for help on a movie about to be shot. “I won’t tell you the plot,” Hyman said. “I’ll just give you what we’re up against. The hero and heroine fall . . . . Continue Reading »
I keep warning that this “nature rights” movement is beginning to bite, and people keep rolling their eyes. But New Zealand just granted rights to a river. From the New Zealand Herald story:Meet the Whanganui. You might call it a river, but in the eyes of the law, it . . . . Continue Reading »
So Romney entered the convention season very slightly behind Obama. Romney got either a modest bounce (in Rasmussen) or a nonexistent bounce (in Gallup) from his convention. Obama got either a modest bounce (in Gallup) or a large bounce (in Rasmussen) from his convention. The result is that, in the . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Very boring. I had trouble focusing. And I like this stuff more than most. 2. When he is talking about domestic policy (especially in the first half of his speech), he sounds like a guy asking for a first term, even when he is looking back on the first term he is still having. 3. He . . . . Continue Reading »
The New England Journal of Medicine has become a leftwing journal on issues of public policy. Demonstrating its progressive bona fides, it just published an article—based on a symposium sponsored by the hard left think tank, Center for American Progress—proposing ways to . . . . Continue Reading »
The last Songbook post considered rock Fame and its relations to Celebrity and Honorable Ambition with plenty of help from political philosophy, and a little from ALMOST FAMOUS, too; moving back to the film (which is proving rich enough for, look out, two more parts after this!), this part will be . . . . Continue Reading »
John Allen is perhaps the best Catholic journalist we have. Measured, reflective, incisive, learned, accurate. A couple days ago he wrote a piece at the National Catholic Reporter on ” Politics and the Global War on Christians .” Coming from anyone else, it may sound alarmist (even . . . . Continue Reading »
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