In what seems like a bizarre modern appropriation of the damnatio memoriae , Kermit Gosnell’s Wikipedia entry is being considered for deletion . From the original deletion request : His case has not received national attention. It is a local multiple-murder story in Pennsylvania, . . . . Continue Reading »
In a very fine article in the American Conservative, ” Sex After Christianity ,” Rod Dreher explains how the growing support for gay marriage reflect deep and profound changes in our moral imaginations. He writes, correctly I think, that “gay-marriage proponents succeeded so . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Leithart describes Rupert Sheldrake’s eccentric ideas : Scientists and non-scientists frequently equate the materialist worldview with science itself, but Sheldrake argues that much of our everyday experience, not to mention recent scientific research, points in the opposite direction. . . . . Continue Reading »
Don’t miss this. It is the best essay I have read on the liberal dominance of higher education in a long time . Nothing fancy, just the situation. Yarbrough, a professor of political science at Bowdoin, and the author of excellent books on TR and TJ , responded to her school newspaper’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember, New Yorkers, David Mills will be speaking at the C. S. Lewis Society tonight: “A Writer Looks at How Lewis Wrote So Well” Friday, April 12 7:30 p.m. The Parish House of The Church of the Ascension 12 West 11th St, New York, NY Further . . . . Continue Reading »
Endorsement and Academic Freedom John Garvey, Touchstone The Rise of Evangélicos Elizabeth Dias, Time Twenty Poems to Save America Tony Hoagland, Harper’s The Economic Logic of the New Domesticity Ann Friedman, New Republic Hit Jobs and Tolerance Kieran Raval, Juicy Ecumenism . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan Salam just nails it in this post on immigration policy. Every Republican talking about immigration should read it. . . . . Continue Reading »
There is something to be said for Peter Lawler’s suggestion that Rick Santorum can be seen, in part, as a right-wing version of a left-wing reactionary. I read Claire Berlinski’s excellent book on Thatcher and I was struck by some of the wrinkles in the coal miners’ strike. Of . . . . Continue Reading »
God’s people have sung the Psalms for millennia, especially in dark times when it seems that he has abandoned them. One young man nearly four hundred years ago found himself in a horribly difficult situation. His name was Wojciech Bobowski (c. 1610—1675), a Polish Reformed Christian who . . . . Continue Reading »
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