Ben Domenech is one of the shrewder conservative writers out there. He supports a flat tax writing: The whole point of starting with the argument for a flat tax is to end up with a tax structure that looks more like Simpson-Bowles and less like the mess we have today . . . Of course Republicans . . . . Continue Reading »
A recently released report by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians (a nonprofit group based in Austria) supplements and confirms Paul Coleman’s article in our June/July issue about discrimination against Christians in Europe. The report . . . . Continue Reading »
Jordan Bloom at The American Conservative hips us to the surprising fact that there is going to be a film about the Copperheads, that is, about the Northern Democrat political movement that opposed continuing the Civil War, and especially once the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Today marks the first anniversary of the death of the blind flat-picking guitar master and folk legend Arthel “Doc” Watson. Kent Gustavson, author of the Watson biography Blind But Now I See, offers a fitting tribute over at bluegrasstoday.com , enumerating five “Doc Watson . . . . Continue Reading »
Brandon Watson explains Jeremy Bentham’s defense of infanticide : Bentham holds that homicide is forbidden in law primarily because of its mischievous effects, which he sorts into the two categories of danger and alarm . In other words, we forbid homicide in order to deter . . . . Continue Reading »
And I’ve been sharing with the organizers of a big Percy conference that will occur next year in the now-legendary St. Francisville my fake-sociological efforts to distinguish Percy-ism from (Wendell) Berry-ism. We Percy-ites see both good and bad effects of the national and multinational . . . . Continue Reading »
For reasons I’ve discussed before , elite opinion in the West is uncomfortable with the idea of Christians as a persecuted minority. At least since the Enlightenment, Western intellectuals, as a class, have seen traditional Christians as adversaries to be resisted, not victims to be rescued. . . . . Continue Reading »
The universe is “built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design,” says Stephen King in an interview with NPR : If you say, “Well, OK, I don’t believe in God. There’s no evidence of God,” then you’re missing the stars in the sky and you’re . . . . Continue Reading »
The Book N. T. Wright Didn’t Write Jeremy Weber, Gleanings Omnipotence and the ‘Delimiter of Possibilities’ View Kenny Pearce, Prosblogion Copperheads, Community, and Those We Have Lost Bill Kauffman & Gerald J. Russello, University Bookman On the Hannah Arendt Movie J. . . . . Continue Reading »
So I just haven’t had time to post. But tonight in my mail I found two “issues” that you might want to explore. Here’s the first, as explored in the NYT . Should we change the names of the ten army bases named after Confederate generals? We could explore the merits of the . . . . Continue Reading »
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