Helen Rittelmeyer digs up a quotation from Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s letters that should appeal to our readers: My impression of Republicans, after living among them as an interested and sympathetic observer for almost two years, [is that] as a group you have almost no confidence that any . . . . Continue Reading »
Don’t Just Blame William of Ockham Michael Brendan Dougherty, The American Conservative Archbishop of Canterbury: Runners and Riders Mick Robson and Megan Lane, BBC Coming Home: The Meaning of Yom Kippur Lord Jonathan Sacks, ABC Religion & Ethics Eliot Through His Letters Martin Lockerd, . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s tons of international stories that Americans don’t follow very closely, a pattern of behavior that is quite human, really. But I am convinced that what’s been going on in China is a huge story that most Americans have not yet paid adequate attention to. A fellow at Forbes, . . . . Continue Reading »
From F.E.: The Life of F.E. Smith, the First Earl of Birkenhead . Our hero is defending a tram company being sued by the family of a boy injured on the tracks: It was alleged that this boy could no longer work and was unable to raise his arm above the level of his shoulder. Smith was sympathetic . . . . Continue Reading »
If you ask me why conservatism has become intellectually impoverished, my answer is going to be a lot more prosaic than David Brooks’s. He starts his decline-of-the-conservative-mind column with a relatively rare allusion to his years working for National Review , and I could do the same but . . . . Continue Reading »
On 26 September 2012, at the close of Yom Kippur, the Canadian Parliament voted 203–91 against M-312. Children in the womb, for legal purposes, will remain non-persons whose lives may be ended with impunity. But who will atone for that? . . . . Continue Reading »
I have many friends who are non-denominational Christians. I even have a friend that is so non-denominational that he doesn’t even like to call himself non-denominational as a precaution lest the term unintentionally create another denomination. But multi-denominational? In his Confessions of . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve discussed drones on this blog before, generally agreeing that killing enemy combatants with unmanned drones can be morally legitimate but leery about their seemingly indiscriminate use. A new report called ” Living Under Drones” serves as further proof that our leeriness is justified. . . . . Continue Reading »
Daniel Burke writes : There’s a rumor circulating the Internets about Harvard Theological Review rejecting Karen King’s research paper on the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife.” Not so, says Harvard Divinity School spokesman Jonathan Beasley. In an email this morning, Beasley . . . . Continue Reading »
I was recently asked to return to my alma mater, Swarthmore College, to participate in a forum on politics and folk music. Although I could not attend in person because of a conflicting obligation, the organizers invited me to submit some comments to be read at the forum. Here are my remarks: I . . . . Continue Reading »
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