So Jim is right that Romney was viewed as a superior LEADER to Obama after the debate. Leadership overcomes partisanship. Leadership gets results. That plays to Romney’s REAL strengths: He’ll be all about mending—not ending—our entitlements, through market-based reforms that . . . . Continue Reading »
Updating C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters (epistles from a veteran demon to his young nephew) for the late twentieth century, Jean Bethke Elshtain published the “Newtape Files” in the pages of First Things in 1993. (This pre- Erasmus Lecture series on her writing began . . . . Continue Reading »
here is an article i did for the standard on the debate. and i have added a question at the end. The highly anticipated debate in Denver was the rarest of all things in American politics: an unspinnable event. Almost all who watched the contest concluded that there was one president on the stage, . . . . Continue Reading »
To continue preparing for Jean Bethke Elshtain’s Erasmus Lecture by revisiting her many contributions to First Things , I recommend her 1992 review of Susan Faludi’s book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women . She deplores the anti-intellectual paranoia of the book and . . . . Continue Reading »
Is America becoming the next France? Is our political system becoming as polarized as that of the French Third and Fourth Republics?According to the late British political scientist, Sir Bernard Crick, politics is the art of conciliating diversity peacefully in a given unit of rule. Some political . . . . Continue Reading »
Messiah College history professor John Fea writes about human depravity and its implications for studying the past on The Anxious Bench : The historian Herbert Butterfield informed us that “if there is any region in which the bright empire of the theologians and the more murky territory of . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friends at the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project have announced a prepublication offer for the special spring 2013 issue of Quaestiones Disputatae dedicated to von Hildebrand’s work. This issue of Quaestiones Disputatae , the philosophical journal of Franciscan . . . . Continue Reading »
Edward Alfred Goerner was longtime professor of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and I was privileged to have him as my PhD supervisor more than 25 years ago.The first thing one noticed about Goerner was his flair for the dramatic in both mannerism and dress. He . . . . Continue Reading »
Wesley J. Smith on whether Muslim doctors should be able to refuse to treat the opposite sex : With the Muslim population increasing in Western Europe and the United States, that faith’s strict religious requirement to maintain modesty between the sexes has prompted some Muslim medical . . . . Continue Reading »
But a love for tradition is not nostalgia. I’ve been teaching Flannery O’Connor in an online course, The Catholic Imagination , and in her gruesome story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” the characters of the grandmother, Red Sammy, and the Misfit indulge in nostalgia, the . . . . Continue Reading »
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