Doug Wilson argues that without property rights there are no human rights: As Christians talk about governmental thieveries, the discussion of these issues in America has an additional layer, and that layer, just like all the others, is unfriendly to tyrants. I want to argue that property is a . . . . Continue Reading »
Nebraska has outlawed abortions after 20 weeks on the grounds that by then, the fetus has developed the structures necessary to feel pain. From the story:Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska signed a law on Tuesday banning most abortions 20 weeks after conception or later on the theory that a fetus, . . . . Continue Reading »
John Podhoretz excoriated me for a characterization of Barack Obama that has earned wide if not universal acceptance among conservatives. Surely he protests too much. John is a very good journalist; if he had read my essays rather than react to a one-line reference to them in a blog post, I am . . . . Continue Reading »
This was published in the 12 April issue of the Canadian periodical Christian Courier:In our society it is not difficult for people to believe in the immortality of the human soul. Even where Christian faith is not necessarily robust, public opinion polls persistently show a majority of North . . . . Continue Reading »
...at the First Thoughts blog on this . . . . Continue Reading »
M. Craig Barnes is among my favorite writer-pastors. A mainliner (PCUSA) and so not as well-known, perhaps, as John Piper or Tim Keller or Mark Driscoll among evangelicals, Barnes, former senior pastor of the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., and currently same at Shadyside . . . . Continue Reading »
When I heard that Jennifer Knapp came out as a lesbian yesterday, I shuddered.But not for why you think.No. I shuddered because the news meant another round of conversations about evangelicals and homosexuality. And that is a conversation which is fraught with danger.There will be the . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve liked John Podhoretz ever since, years ago, he called to introduce himself and ask me to write something for him—on Thomas Mann’s novels, as it happens. I very gratefully learned, as much as I was able, to write literary reviews by churning them out for him while he was at the . . . . Continue Reading »
John PodhoretzMichael Ledeenandme, here, here and here.“Dergleichen zu widersprechen war ganz unter meiner . . . . Continue Reading »
More and more people are picking through the new bill and seeing the financial landmines hidden therein. Over at NRO’s Critical Condition, Grace-Marie Turner—head of the conservative Galen Institute—does a good job summarizing some of the problems. It’s a long post that . . . . Continue Reading »
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