Some commentators—both conservative and liberal (or, I guess, “progressive”)—have suggested that this election hammers some nails in the coffin of the long-standing notion—a bedtime story we conservatives like to tell ourselves?—that America is a center-right . . . . Continue Reading »
Can Philosophy of Religion Be Apologetics? Helen de Cruz, Prosblogion Court Completely Drops Ministerial Test Melissa Steffan, Gleanings Tinker, Tailor, Soldier . . . Theologian Fr. Tim Finigan, Hermeneutic of Continuity The Perniciousness of Upper Middle Brow Music Jordan Bloom, The American . . . . Continue Reading »
The morning reading about politics is all about the realization that America, despite complaining about the inefficiency of a divided legislative branch and a president constrained by a House controlled by the other party, voted for just the same again for the next two years. We like the . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ll be fast. 1. Maybe there aren’t as many missing voters as Sean Trende thinks. Figuring where Romney underperformed with whites (not his biggest problem), will have to wait until more of the votes are counted. According to the exit polls Romney won white voters by 59% to 39% for . . . . Continue Reading »
As step four of my twelve-step program to stop obsessing about the election, I’m working on part of my introduction to my study on THE CHRISTIAN VIEW OF THE FAMILY, first unveiled at BYU. For the Christians, the law of nature is love, personal love. Our hardwiring for personal logos, so to . . . . Continue Reading »
Not all religious conservatives are likely to lament the success of Colorado and Washington’s referenda legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. The noted English Catholic philosopher Peter Geach, for example, offered a Thomistic defense of toking in his book The Virtues : We . . . . Continue Reading »
For the record–here’s the best argument I’ve gotten against overhyping the Obama science of voter control: OH was much closer than either his or Romney’s “internals” showed. Plus there was a strangely low turnout of rural, white, mainly evangelical voters in that . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s an interesting piece of data from Tuesday’s exit polls , which Joseph Knippenberg discusses below: President Obama won the Catholic vote. The margin was narrow—50 percent to 48 percent, which more or less mirrors the President’s popular-vote victory—but, . . . . Continue Reading »
Rachel Lu on seizing the Mormon moment : The good news for Mormons is that America does not hate them. A year ago many Democrats were hopefully predicting that Americans would be unwilling to elect a Mormon president. In the end, though, Romney’s Mormonism does not seem to have been a serious . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama was such a weak candidate that one unalloyed good moment by a weak Republican candidate – the debate of October 3 – almost threw the election to the latter. As a result, I don’t see that the election results presage much about American conservatism. I recall . . . . Continue Reading »
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