Jay Michaelson, contributing editor to the Jewish Daily Forward, is rolling out a report titled ” Redefining Religious Liberty: The Covert Campaign Against Civil Rights.” In it he makes the conspiracy-minded claim that groups like the Becket Fund are part of a “Roman Catholic campaign . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s what the Amicus Brief filed by the Claremont Institute in the case United States v. Windsor is claiming. It touches on this admittedly interesting question: Whether the President can deprive this Court of jurisdiction to consider the constitutionality of an act of Congress by refusing . . . . Continue Reading »
We’re hearing lots of reports that sentiment at the recent CPAC (Conervative Political Action Conference), and elsewhere , tended to favor legalizing same-sex marriage or at least abandoning opposition to it. George Will characterized the event as providing evidence for the . . . . Continue Reading »
(From left to right) Matthew Schmitz, deputy editor; Matthew Cantirino, assistant editor; Lauren Wilson, managing editor; David Mills, executive editor; Tristyn Bloom, editorial intern; R.R. Reno, editor; Katherine Infantine, junior fellow; Anna Williams, junior fellow . . . . Continue Reading »
The Weekly Standard has a compelling story highlighting philosopher Thomas Nagel and his rejection by fellow atheists for questioning materialism. The article, cleverly titled “The Heretic,” appears here . It begins by noting how Nagel found himself so despised by his colleagues: Thomas . . . . Continue Reading »
“The Vatican has an annual operating budget of under $300 million, while Harvard University, arguably the Vatican of elite secular opinion, has a budget of $3.7 billion, meaning it’s ten times greater. The Vatican’s ‘patrimony,’ what other institutions would call an . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the perennial struggles in church life is balancing our approach to the work of the Holy Spirit. On one side of the evangelical continuum, there are self-conscious “cessationists” who believe that the “sign gifts,” such as prophecy and speaking in tongues, ceased with the . . . . Continue Reading »
What the hell is this Kennedy post all about?? Is there some person out there worth taking seriously that I’m not aware of who thinks that Republicans never falter on judicial nominations? Who exactly are you talking to? Here’s my response: The POINT is that the liberal activist and . . . . Continue Reading »
Here Come the Radicals! Matthew Lee Anderson, Christianity Today Pope Francis’ Mass Appeal Victor Gaetan, Foreign Affairs Art and Friendship Elliot Milco, Fare Forward Hart Has Reasons that Reason Cannot Know Thaddeus J. Kozinski, Ethika Politika Hawthorne and the American Unconscious Micah . . . . Continue Reading »
In 2011, pro-lifers at Clarion University in Pennsylvania erected a display of wooden crosses representing unborn. Pro-abortion vandals pulled the crosses out of the ground, reinserted them upside-down, and dripped red paint “blood” over them. They also made baby footprints in the . . . . Continue Reading »
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