Businesses and Conscience

by Greg Forster

The Obama administration makes a most fortuitous moral discovery. Continue Reading »

29 Aug 2014 0

The Dilemma Facing Social Conservatives

by R. R. Reno

A GOP poll confirms recent trends. Single women don’t like the conservative message. The poll takers and those running the focus groups asked about various policies about equal pay, education, jobs, and so forth, which is natural. That’s typically what we debate in politics. But I think the gap has a deeper explanation that brings the challenge we face into focus. Continue Reading »

28 Aug 2014 0

Reply to Leithart

by Robert P. George

Although I am grateful to Peter Leithart for his interest in my work and his efforts to understand my views about basic human goods, his critique of my thought on the subject seems to me to have gone (to use his term) awry. Continue Reading »

28 Aug 2014 0

Crime, Race, and Racism

by R. R. Reno

I want to come back to accusations that my column discussing Ferguson, Missouri is animated by racism. I observed that young black males attract the “special attention” of law enforcement, and that any population focused on by people with guns—even law enforcers—will suffer a disproportionate amount of police violence. I also made the observation that this sad truth is hard to avoid, because young black males are often rightly the focus of police attention. Continue Reading »

27 Aug 2014 0

Our Tired Scripts

by R. R. Reno

Yesterday I made observations about the sad way events in Ferguson followed a familiar script. Some readers responded in a fashion that was also very much on script. In various ways they accused me of racism. Continue Reading »

26 Aug 2014 0

From Ferguson to Staten Island

by R. R. Reno

My web exclusive yesterday took up that oft-repeated script we saw enacted in Ferguson, Missouri—police violence against young black males, protests that shift toward retributive violence, hand-wringing, soul-searching, and then little change. Thorough reflection on that script needs to take in the quite different trajectory of similar events here in New York. Continue Reading »

26 Aug 2014 0

The Power of the Liberal Script

by Mark Bauerlein

Rusty Reno’s treatment of the Ferguson affair in his Web Exclusive today emphasizes the predictable “script” that has unfolded since that fateful confrontation on August 9th. “Black youth shot by policeman [arrow] outrage and protest [arrow] rioting and looting [arrow] indignant and solemn discussion of American racism by pundits and columnists”—that’s the drama, and it surprises nobody anymore. Continue Reading »

25 Aug 2014 0

Of Exiles and Educating in the Tradition

by Dale M. Coulter

Having taught a number of years at an undergraduate institution within the evangelical world, I observed on more than one occasion students who wrestled with the particular brand of Christianity in which they had been raised. Continue Reading »

21 Aug 2014 0

Lecture in Houston on Mideast Christians

by Mark Movsesian

I’ll be giving a lecture, “Religious Freedom for Mideast Christians, Yesterday and Today,” at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston on Saturday, September 6. Continue Reading »

20 Aug 2014 0

Children of Light and Children of Darkness

by Dale M. Coulter

This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of Reinhold Niebuhr’s attempt to place the democratic experiment on more firm ground. His The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness represents Niebuhr’s effort to save democracy from itself. Continue Reading »

19 Aug 2014 0