I’m still scratching my head over a story that appeared in yesterday’s New York Times . Ace reporter Ethan Bronner, who has covered legal matters among others for many years, went out to Palo Alto for the kickoff ceremonies of a new law school clinic at Stanford Law School, the . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve been getting a good number of challenging emails about our recent postings. Here’s one (from someone most of you know and respect): Your view relies on viewing the open-endedness of Locke’s doctrine and the mixed or incoherent nature of the Founding. If true, the big . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I’m home with a sick kid who is trying to take a nap, so while I’ve got a moment, 1. Peter Lawler says: I don’t agree with Yuval that “the pursuit of happiness” is replaced by “collective effort.” That does sound kind of socialist or fascist, but the . . . . Continue Reading »
My home state is one of a handful of states that provides dollar-for-dollar tax credits (up to a certain limit) for individuals and corporations that make contributions to student scholarship organizations, which in turn provide assistance to needy parents who wish to enroll their children in . . . . Continue Reading »
John Daniel Davidson asks, “Has American Fiction Lost Sight of God?” In an article in the New York Times Book Review last month, Paul Elie ponders why Christian belief figures, “as something between a dead language and a hangover,” in current fiction. He observes that the . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael J. New: After Roe v. Wade , conceptions increased by 30 percent. The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect has reported that child abuse has increased more than 1,000 percent since Roe v. Wade. The cohort of 14-to-17-year-olds born after the Roe v. Wade . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve waited to discuss the most important of our modal auxiliaries, the word that is the past tense of will, and also therefore the marker for our conditional tenses: would. We call ’em conditional because they hold true only if certain conditions are . . . . Continue Reading »
Yuval has done better than anyone is showing how coherent, ambitious, and hugely partisan the speech was. The Declaration, we remember, has been the most effective partisan weapon in our nation’s history. Here’s Yuval’s view of president’s view of the Declaration’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Abstraction Rightly Understood James Matthew Wilson, Front Porch Republic Happy 100th, Carl Henry Jordan J. Ballor, Touchstone Reading Writers I Can’t Stand Maria Bustillos, New Yorker It’s Time for a New Feminism Elise Italiano, Public Discourse How Abortion Became an Evangelical . . . . Continue Reading »
I was struck yesterday, on the 40th memorial of Roe v. Wade, by several statements by those favoring legal abortion who stressed the “need to protect the right to choose for the sake of our daughters.” Our daughters. Hmmmm . . . . Every child (or, if you prefer, since it changes . . . . Continue Reading »
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