All absolutisms, appropriately enough, are not created equal. It is possible for a man to support one despot but condemn another, or to be a thoroughgoing monarchist at home and a republican elsewhere. A French aristocrat might go to Tsarist Russia and say, with perfect consistency, “I am a . . . . Continue Reading »
Congratulations to my friend ( and fellow opponent of anti-Sharia laws ) Robert K. Vischer on his appointment as dean of the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Robert’s writing—-at Mirror of Justice and elsewhere—-always rewards attention. . . . . Continue Reading »
“That the reactionary protests against progressive society, judges it, and condemns it, and yet is resigned to its current monopoly of history, seems an eccentric position. The radical progressive, on the one hand, does not comprehend how the reactionary condemns an action that he . . . . Continue Reading »
When I read Rebecca West’s description of the folk costume of Albanian men, I assumed she was lying or at least exaggerating: No Westerner ever sees an Albanian for the first time without thinking that the poor man’s trousers are just about to drop off. They are cut in a straight line . . . . Continue Reading »
“Maurice Sendak,” says Russell D. Moore , “was, by all accounts, a lonely, misanthropic, cynical, homosexual atheist.” Yet, in an article he wrote shortly after Sendak’s death a few months ago for the Nov/Dec 2012 issue of Touchstone , he praises him . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas Kidd’s recent blog post about a relatively little-known political demographic—”paleo-evangelicals”—has sparked an interesting conversation about how Christians approach politics and how a generation gap contributes to those differences. In Kidd’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell E. Saltzman wonders why Lutherans can’t take Catholic communion : Intercommunion for us is no big deal, though it used to be. Beginning in 1875 and for about a century thereafter, we had the Akron-Galesburg Rule: Lutheran pulpits for Lutheran pastors only; Lutheran altars for Lutheran . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . not THAT high, of course. I’m using the internet on a Delta plane on the way to Provo, UT, called by at least two French guys I know the most fascinating place in the Western World these days. I’ve been completely against allowing the internet to disturb the sanctuary that is the . . . . Continue Reading »
Misreading the “Gift from God” Comments Amy Sullivan, The New Republic The Case for the Electoral College Derek T. Muller, Liberty Law Site Punditry and the Unseriousness of Human Affairs Mark Judge, Acculturated You Should Be Reading John Mikhail Rob Vischer, Mirror of Justice The . . . . Continue Reading »
Conor Friedersdorf asks about the president’s kill list, drones, and Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, 16 years old and an American citizen, who was the son of the late Anwar al-Awlaki, who was also born in America, who was also an American citizen, and who was also killed by drone. There is a . . . . Continue Reading »
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