A War on Religion? Bruce Hausknecht, Public Discourse The Righteous Mind and the Libertarian Mind Emily Esfahani Smith, Washington Times Newsmagazine Death and the Dwindling Cult of Authority Jim Kelly, Vanity Fair A Dissident None on the Rising Unaffiliated Nathaniel Torrey, Juicy Ecumenism . . . . Continue Reading »
A brouhaha is brewing in the Great State of my beloved North Dakota at the moment. Bishop David Kagan, my ordinary here in Bismarck, and also apostolic administrator of the vacant Diocese of Fargo, has composed a letter concerning conscience and citizenship as Catholics in North Dakota prepare to . . . . Continue Reading »
In my historical linguistics class, we talk about the influence of culture on circumlocutions, the strategy of saying something indirect so as not to offend. One of the classic examples is that of the refusal of some Victorians to say the word “bull” because it referred to that . . . . Continue Reading »
that is made up of people who went to bed early or watched Monday Night Football instead of seeing the debate (I went to bed early btw.) Did anyone see anything that will change anybody’s mind? Did anybody see anything that will get undecided voters to finally make up their minds? Here is . . . . Continue Reading »
Richard Williamson has been removed from the traditionalist Catholic splinter group Society of St. Pius X, according to the traditionalist blog Rorate Caeli : Bishop Richard Williamson, one of the four bishops consecrated by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and co-consecrated by Bishop Antonio de . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing in the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings magazine, Retired Navy Captain Kevin Eyer explains how sex integration has wasted the Navy’s resources and made it less combat-ready: Casual observers—civilians and those who have never served in a fully integrated combat . . . . Continue Reading »
In 2004 Michelle Obama wrote a campaign letter on behalf of her husband’s campaign saying that killing a child when it was halfway out of the womb was a “legitimate medical procedure” (thus clarifying her husband’s idea of what constitutes a “surgical” . . . . Continue Reading »
James R. Rogers on why Christians should oppose factions : The American founders identified “party” with “faction.” But that doesn’t hold up, and not simply because the founders themselves started early forms of political parties. In Madison’s definition, factions are . . . . Continue Reading »
Last night Mitt Romney repeated a silly attack on Obama and failed to flank him on foreign policy. If we’re to consider truth in judging debates (and I certainly think we should), Romney lost. This is just what I predicted on Bloggingheads over the weekend: Many pundits have committed . . . . Continue Reading »
I have, as my title indicates, a perspective somewhat different from the one James Rogers offers today in his On the Square article, ” Why Christians Should Oppose Factions .” My disagreement with Rogers may not be as large as the contrast between our titles, because I think that buried . . . . Continue Reading »
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