The following remarks were delivered last night at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, DC upon reception of the Young Conservatives Coalition’s annual Buckley Award . Thank you. I am honored to be named a 2013 Buckley Award winner. In the two minutes I have tonight, I’d like to . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, it’s that time of year again, the paper-grading season. I thought I’d share a particularly amusing/appalling incident with one of my students, as captured in this email of mine: Dear Barry, As I explained in the last email, the problems with your paper are not merely superficial, . . . . Continue Reading »
Albuquereque Voters Defeat Anti-Abortion Referendum . 55 to 45%, with heavy turnout. I had some hopes for a closer outcome. Stoked by some over-optimistic social conservative reporting, no doubt. Still, is 55 to 45 a “huge” victory for pro-abortion forces, or is it yet more evidence of . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Center for Law and Religion Forum today, we have a podcast on the legislative prayer case just argued at the Supreme Court, Town of Greece v. Galloway . The podcast will be particularly useful for students and others interested in the history of legislative prayer and an . . . . Continue Reading »
Surviving a Religious Cleansing Mollie Hemingway, Federalist Squeak and Gibber John Crowley, Lapham’s Quarterly Who Was John Tavener, Anyway? Paul Elie, Everything That Rises A Postscript to Peter Steinfels George McKenna, Human Life Review The Sacred Subdivision Deborah Justice, Marginalia . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a report on a working draft of a Kabul-Washington deal on the U.S. Afghan mission after 2014: Taken as a whole, the document describes a basic U.S.-Afghan exchange. Afghanistan would allow Washington to operate military bases to train Afghan forces and conduct counter-terrorism . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s what looks to be the final update on that interview Pope Francis gave to Eugenio Scalfari of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica this fall. Readers of this website will recall that the interview quotes Pope Francis as saying, among other things, that . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Tuesday! At Postmodern Conservative , Peter Lawler thinks about the progressive rejection of the ACA and Pete Spiliakos draws a lesson from Nancy Pelosi and the media . Maureen Mullarkey on El Greco : “It is one of the oddities of cultural history that this non-Spaniard, buried in an . . . . Continue Reading »
On Wednesday, November 13, Fr. Maciej Zieba, O.P., came to the New York office to give a talk on the theory and practice of solidarity. His reflections were grounded in his concrete experiences of life under communist rule. Moving through an analysis of the philosophy of solidarity, especially as . . . . Continue Reading »
Kuttner , an old-fashioned progressive, big-government liberal, said that the Democrats missed a big opportunity in 2008. Due to the mainly Republican missteps, there was a moment when progressive reform could have, once again, become change we can believe in. What we needed was a new . . . . Continue Reading »
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