So only have a moment this morning to comment on last night’s TV. Hannah on Girls has CHANGED, although it remains to be seen whether it’s change we can believe in. She’s no longer the victim ready to have sex with anyone who’s ready to exploit her. She thinks of herself as . . . . Continue Reading »
Against Happiness Emily Esfahani Smith, The Atlantic Is Christianity Philosophical? David Lyle Jeffrey, Comment In What Part of Sin Is Sinfulness Located? Adam Kirsch, Tablet Can Realism Be a Comprehensive Theory of Foreign Policy? Peter Lawler, Library of Law and Liberty Whispers of Faith in a . . . . Continue Reading »
Scott Rasmussen writes that Republican Washington leaders are trying to find ways to prevent primary challenges - and especially the kinds of primary challenges where the insurgent winner blows winnable Senate races. Several thoughts: 1. Sometimes insurgent primary challenger are a really good . . . . Continue Reading »
An update on an earlier post about an English appellate court decision on the right of Christian employees to decline to work on Sundays. The decision was released to the public last week, and it turns out that initial press reports were a bit misleading. The case involved . . . . Continue Reading »
By me at the amazing LAW AND LIBERTY site. If you click, you find out the REAL NAME of djf. . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s a new Bible translation that drives me nuts: “And he sent his servants to them, to gather the produce of the land.” How did that boring business-word get in there? The Greek was karpous, fruits, literally things you pluck off a tree. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Sometimes my college freshmen tell me that they use a thesaurus to find synonyms, so that they don’t have to use the same word all the time. Using the same word, they’ve been told, is repetitive, and repetition is bad. Well, that’s complete nonsense. I’ll turn to repetition in . . . . Continue Reading »
reports: China’s “Little Emperors” — the generations of only-children born under the government’s rigid “one child” policy — are living up to their name. A study published Thursday in the journal Science has found that compared with two groups of people . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday I wrote that a politics of raising taxes on lower earners and cutting taxes on higher earners was, in the minds of many of its supporters, a politics of solidarity. Low earners have a responsibility to show more solidarity with the job creating high earners by paying more taxes and . . . . Continue Reading »
Shortly before his death, Richard John Neuhaus, speaking at the annual convention of the National Right to Life Committee, delivered what I believe to be the greatest pro-life speech ever given. It will inspire the pro-life faithful of all traditions and stations until the field is . . . . Continue Reading »
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