Daniel Born wonders , “What if every soldier and politician were required to be a lit major?” It sounds far fetched, I know. Textual critics would run the Pentagon. Generals and colonels commanding the tanks, Predator drones, and Green Berets would all be required to carry well-worn . . . . Continue Reading »
The animal rights leader, Rutgers Law School Professor Gary Francione, and I debated before more than 100 law students today at Columbia Law School in NYC, at a lunchtime event co-sponsored by the Federalist Society and the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund. The debate question was, “Do . . . . Continue Reading »
There is only “case of collective conversion to Judaism in Europe in modern times,” and it occurred in a small southern Italian village in fascist Italy. The prime minister of Canada describes what that country is doing to combat anti-semitism , which “targets the Jewish people by . . . . Continue Reading »
Pity the person who looks at the night sky and sees only hot glowing balls of gas. If he starts to speak, you are likely to get a great deal of hot air, but little romantic glow. Knowing the composition of a thing is good, but it is at least as good to know what a thing is to mankind.Stars are more . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Sabato and Abramowitz , two of our most astute and fair-and-balanced political scientists, are now certain that our president will serve only one term. Either he will be defeated for reelection (by anyone but Palin) or he will bow to the inevitable and decide soon to not seek reelection. 2. I . . . . Continue Reading »
Several years ago I had a student in my classes who was born in Baghdad and claimed to have grown up speaking both Aramaic and Arabic. Her family are Christian and consider themselves Assyrian, one of the most ancient communities in that part of the world. They had come to Canada some years earlier . . . . Continue Reading »
In the first to today’s “On the Square” articles, R. R. Reno examines The Idols of Revisionist Theology . They are not the kind of idols Scripture condemns, but precisely the kind of dogmatic security more traditional Christians believe protects us from idolatry. Perhaps . . . . Continue Reading »
We live in a time of grand explanations of Obama—Dinesh D’Souza’s post-colonialism, Stanley Kurtz’s socialism, and James Kloppenburg’s pragmatism have all come to the fore recently. Now Sean Wilentz throws his hat in the ring. Our President is (or was) the leader of a . . . . Continue Reading »
Biological colonialism is a growing problem—the rich exploiting the poor for natural resources that are pieces of human flesh. In S. Africa, a hospital was fined way too little for taking the organs from people, including minors, who were paid to be maimed. From the story:South . . . . Continue Reading »
Good for Todd Hartch. The professor of history at Eastern Kentucky University decided to go public, writing a letter opposing the decision by the university president to extend benefits to domestic partners akin to those available to married couples. On Public Discourse, he gives an account of his . . . . Continue Reading »
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