What I Said at the APSA

by Peter Lawler

Thanks to the amazing LAW AND LIBERTY, you can find out here . . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Sep 2013 0

Carl’s Rock Songbook #83: What Are the Greatest Post-60s Folk-Rock Songs?

by Carl Scott

My selections get even more arbitrary here, because I’m both including songs deliberately seeking to revisit or rework the original sound, and ones that, perhaps unintentionally, to my mind evoke it. What is more, my knowledge gets spread more thinly here—I’m very spotty on . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Sep 2013 0

Interview with Samuel Tadros

by Mark Movsesian

At the Center for Law and Religion Forum today, I interview the Hudson Institute’s Samuel Tadros about his new book,  Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity . In the interview, Tadros talks about the history of the Coptic Church, its important contributions to . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Sep 2013 0

Stray Thoughts On Syria

by Pete Spiliakos

So I spent about an hour listening to John Kerry talking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about President Obama’s proposed strike. Here are some thoughts: 1. Kerry argued that the refugee crisis from the Syrian civil war was destabilizing Jordan. That strikes me as more of an . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2013 0

Our Bullying Bureaucracy and Our Need for a Real Science of American Politics

by Carl Scott

Jean Yarbrough makes a very apt comment on Powerline , in reference to the recent stories on the obscene and lawless bullying of the entrepreneur who brought Buckyballs to market , and the similar IRS bullying of the True the Vote leader: We need an updated online primer in American government and . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2013 0

On Some Other Squares Today

by B. D. McClay

Hello, good ROFTers! We have no new On the Square posts for you today, but there’s a lot of new content over at our other blogs from this weekend and today, so here’s a roundup of things you may have missed. Over at Postmodern Conservative , Peter Lawler is a skunk , while James Cesar . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2013 0

Bad People and Private Schools

by David T. Koyzis

Allison Benedikt could perhaps stand to take a few lessons from Mark Twain or Will Rogers, because her obviously satirical article in Slate has elicited a number of angry responses from readers who have taken her seriously. Here’s the article at issue: ” If You Send Your Kid to Private . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2013 0

First Links — 9.3.13

by Matthew Cantirino

Vonnegut and Labor Day Matthew Gannon & Wilson Taylor, Jacobin Clive James’ Dull Dante Ian Thomson, Financial Times The Dark Dove with the Flickering Tongue Matthew J. Milliner & Brett Foster, Books & Culture The Case for Christian Realism Stanley Hauerwas, ABC Religion & . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2013 0

The Skunk at the Political Scientists’ Picnic

by Peter Lawler

That, of course, I was. So from the point of view of my profession, I’m apparently more controversial than even Mr. Ceaser. See what they’re saying about ME in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCAITON and INSIDE HIGHER ED . I will say more later about and eventually post what I actually said. . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2013 0

Cornel West on What Really Matters in Life

by Robert P. George

I know how puzzled many people are—-those on the right side of the political spectrum as well as those on the left—-by the deep friendship I have developed with Cornel West, growing out of our teaching partnership at Princeton. I don’t know if Cornel’s left-wing comrades . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2013 0