I have mixed emotions about Troy University’s plan to offer faith-based campus housing . On the one hand, it seems like the careful kind of accommodation of faith in a public setting that I favor: The five-acre property is leased from the university by Troy’s foundation, a private, . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week I read David Blum’s interview of President Obama for Amazon’s Kindle Singles. The interview was interesting, and it provided some insight into the president’s goals for the remainder of his term. He talked about the American dream. He talked about jobs. He talked about how . . . . Continue Reading »
Damascus: What’s Left Sarah Birke, New York Review of Books James Turrell’s Inner Light Morgan Mies, Smart Set Dryden & the Physician Matthew Hanley, Catholic Thing Monsters, Marvels, and the Birth of Science Steve Paulson, Nautilus Is Eric Metaxas the Next Chuck Colson? Sarah . . . . Continue Reading »
Video On Demand is not something that needs words to be spoken in its favor. It has plenty of advertising, and it is something good for a few bucks on a boring night. That said, in one day I was able to watch two movies on VOD directed by two highly regarded directors from the past days when movie . . . . Continue Reading »
My policy on the Egypt debate is to be charitable, assuming that no-one has a full handle on things. For example, when a commenter recommended a Spengler column that savaged the Reuel Marc Gerecht essay I had partially recommended , I was pretty repelled, even though I had rejected Gerecht’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Should Republicans seek to pass a continuing resolution to defund Obamacare? Senator Ted Cruz thinks so. Punditor Charles Krauthammer thinks not. Me, I really want to join Cruz’s call to battle, but I just don’t see how you ever get a veto-proof majority to do this, and in the midst of . . . . Continue Reading »
David Brooks thinks so. . . . . Continue Reading »
New York City election headlines have been dominated by the bizarre escapades of the lecherous Anthony Weiner or the suave front-running of Christine Quinn. Social conservatives in the Big Apple can easily feel depressed by the City’s self-satisfaction with libertinism. Registered Democrats . . . . Continue Reading »
Jeff Sessions deserves a lot of credit for this memo he wrote on the Senate’s (really Charles Schumer’s) immigration bill. Sessions rightly points out that the Senate bill would enormously increase low-skill immigration and that this would damage the economic prospects of low-skill US . . . . Continue Reading »
What is a Christian? It is either a simple question or a very complex one, depending on who’s asking and who’s answering. The question of who is a practicing Protestant or a devout Catholic should be less complicated. To be considered “practicing” there should be both belief . . . . Continue Reading »
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