Beating Up on the Left

Alex Knepper is an undergraduate at American University, and he’s not gonna take it any more. In a forcefully written denunciation of what he diagnoses as a mindless anti-conservatism at the root of the Leftist mentality, ” The roots of the left’s love affair with Islam ,” . . . . Continue Reading »

America as Greece?

Ron Johnson, a Republican running for Feingold’s Senate seat in Wisconsin, says America is becoming Greece , collapsing in financial crisis. True? There is this fact to add to the mix. Over at super economics blogger Megan McArdle’s web page , a commenter complained, in another context, . . . . Continue Reading »

Benedict Understands

Britain Can Benefit from Benedict , declares George Weigel in the cover story of the latest issue of the  English magazine Standpoint , a very helpful summation of Benedict’s thought on “the spiritual roots of Europe” (the title of his famous lecture to the Italian . . . . Continue Reading »

Embracing the Gospel of Black Sabbath

You know what’s wrong with us Christians? We’re too reasonable and ordered and not passionate enough. We could really learn a thing or two if, like fans of heavy metal music, we’d embrace the “liberative theology of darkness.” So says Rev Rachel Mann , the latest . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s 1940 in the Middle East

Between the Anglo-French declaration of war against Germany in September 1939 and the German invasion of France in May 1940, the world had eight months of “phony war” or Sitzkrieg (“sitting war”). Sitzkrieg continued on the Eastern front until June 1941, when Hitler at length . . . . Continue Reading »

Left Behind?

Ann Althouse ducked into the library to escape a rainstorm the other day and picked up a copy of the Utne Reader —a magazine she says she loved thirty years ago and hasn’t read since. Her conclusion, reading it now? The ” Utne Reader is not a young man’s world—or a young . . . . Continue Reading »

Heresy and Schism

One of the respondents to Not Your Smallest Lutheran Church , Russell Saltzman’s report on the recent creation of a new Lutheran body, objected to the conservatives leaving the mainline body to form another one. “[I]t’s not a good thing to be willing to splinter” over . . . . Continue Reading »

King’s College Visitors

Our friends at The King’s College — the college famous for being located in the Empire State Building — have announced the fall schedule for their Distinguished Visitor Series. The visitors are interviewed by the college’s provost, Marvin Olasky, and answer questions from . . . . Continue Reading »