First Links — 12.12.12

Evangelizing via Meme Ryan Scheel and Brandon Vogt, Brandon Vogt Stereotypes, Risks, and Jesus: An Interview Mark Driscoll and John Piper, Resurgence Albert O. Hirschman, RIP Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution The Decline of Honor in the Twentieth Century Brett and Kate McKay, Art of Manliness . . . . Continue Reading »

Bay Psalm Book for Sale

Ted Olsen has written a fascinating article inspired by the recent decision of Boston’s Old South Church to sell off one of its two remaining copies of the original edition of the Bay Psalm Book, used liturgically by the New England Puritans in the 17th century: What You Need to Know About . . . . Continue Reading »

Bring Back “Brethren”

One of our brethren, Anthony Esolen, has written to extol that old-fashioned word, brethren . His comments have relevance for that increasingly complicated and contentious enterprise, Bible translation. In the older translations of the New Testament, such as the Geneva Bible and the King James . . . . Continue Reading »

Subtlety and Scalia

The Associated Press reports on a question posted to Justice Scalia at a lecture at Princeton University : Speaking at Princeton University, Scalia was asked by a gay student why he equates laws banning sodomy with those barring bestiality and murder. [ . . . ] “It’s a form of . . . . Continue Reading »

Re: Sobering Up

Matthew , if the apportionment requirement is an insuperable obstacle to direct federal property taxes, then perhaps it is not so “idiotic” after all—-and its “historical origins” are not necessarily “obscure,” n’est-ce pas ? On a more serious note, . . . . Continue Reading »