The Gang of Eight’s immigration proposal “does not solve the problem of mass illegal immigration, but instead extends the problem,” says Pete Spiliakos in today’s column . The Gang of Eight bill would create a laboring class—some tied to particular jobs—that . . . . Continue Reading »
“After twenty-five years Richard Land has retired as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission,” says Mark D. Tooley in today’s column . In his good-bye to the Southern Baptist Convention in Houston on June 11, Land declared: . . . . Continue Reading »
Let me begin with a disclaimer. I spent 13 years as a student in the public-school system. My mother just retired after teaching in the public-school system for more than 28 years. I married a public-school teacher, though she quit after our first child was born. My wife’s mother was a . . . . Continue Reading »
The Early Church, Wealth, and Poverty Dylan Pahman, Acton Institute In and Out, In a Blaise of Glory David Mathis, Desiring God A Populist Republican Immigration Agenda Pete Spiliakos, National Review Stop Taking Orwell’s Name in Vain Jason Slotkin, Atlantic A Gratis Copy of Jayber Crow . . . . Continue Reading »
While rereading Edmund Morgan’s magisterial American Slavery, American Freedom , I was struck by his discussion of public penance performed by early Virginian fornicators and adulterers. The courts, for example, prescribed penances for couples who appeared with children too soon after . . . . Continue Reading »
You can produce an immigration policy that is all three. I have some thoughts about it over at National Review Online . . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking before 2000 young people upon his recent arrival in Ireland, President Obama raised the old canard that religious education is divisive : If towns remain divided—if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another . . . . Continue Reading »
At Public Discourse today, I explain what led the Left to rebuke the authentically American understanding of religious liberty after the 1993 passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: Understanding why religious liberty became politically controversial requires more than just identifying . . . . Continue Reading »
Among the rough and ready tests of character, this seems a very good one, not infallible but close to it, accounting for the occasional hard day, bad headache, annoying companions: “The way people treat restaurant staff is, I think, a kind of poker tell, revealing a person’s character . . . . Continue Reading »
“In February, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Edith Jones gave a controversial speech defending and endorsing the American system of capital punishment,” says Stephanos Bibas in today’s column . She was accused of “compromising her judicial impartiality” The . . . . Continue Reading »
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