In BP’s Unbalanced, Uncharitable Funding , Rob Bluey argues that BP has made the wrong choice in giving money to state governments rather than to private charities. By embracing government bureaucracy over private efficiency, the company is forcing charities struggling to respond to the . . . . Continue Reading »
In a comment to my post yesterday criticizing the self-promotion of Glenn Beck as a leader for conservative Christians, a reader asks, “exactly where is the charismatic Christian leader who would be preferable in your eyes to Mr. Beck?” That’s a fair question. My personal . . . . Continue Reading »
“In fairness to [Glenn] Beck,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in her “On the Square” column today, The Old Times, the End Times, and Glenn Beck , he and Sarah Palin and the rest managed to craft something nearly unthinkable in 21st Century America: a political event so infused with . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Also appearing in the most recent PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE is a most relevant and insightful article by one of our country’s most distinguished public intellectuals, Irving Louis Horowitz: “Legalism as an Executive Ideology: Foundations of Barack Obama’s Leadership . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve long enjoyed reading Camille Paglia, surely one of the most interesting voices in academia, full of piss and vinegar, and capable of original thought. I remember reading her insightful and very funny essay, “The Joy of Presbyterian Sex,” in the 1980s and marking her down as . . . . Continue Reading »
It was a big move for the Pentecostal World Conference to have an official from the World Council of Churches, wrote a Pentecostal friend responding to my Need They Speak This Way? , and both sides must have feared that the relation could fall apart before it had really begun, if he said . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s no secret that Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health (and an evangelical Christian), is a proponent of embryo-destructive research. No matter what his other qualifications, President Obama would never have appointed the former head of the Human Genome Project . . . . Continue Reading »
Reflections after reading Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlSlavery was the original American sin.I don’t know anyone who justifies race-based slavery, but I have known seemingly good folk with more than a dollop of sympathy for the Confederacy. Growing centralized . . . . Continue Reading »
California is Greece without the Acropolis. And yet, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine—perhaps its profligate administers fearing that the people of California will pull the plug when its ten year borrow and spend license expires—is spending desperately on research in . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things ’ senior editor David Goldman will be on CNBC’s Kudlow Report tonight around 7:25 p.m. EST . . . . Continue Reading »
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