Rubio is now willing to occasionally admit that his Gang of Eight immigration plan provides for amnesty first and border security and internal enforcement either later or never. Meanwhile, a Rubio advisor has been caught arguing for a larger low-skill guest worker program despite double . . . . Continue Reading »
Scott Galupo is right about Santorum’s speech. I was remiss not to link to it over the weekend. Good for Santorum for saying: One after another, they talked about the business they had built. But not a single—not a single —factory worker went out there . . . Not a single janitor, . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s linguistic trivia: According to the “NB” column in the Times Literary Supplement (in the May 24th issue, not available online), the phrase “I don’t give a damn” ought to be “I don’t give a dam.” The dam is an Indian copper . . . . Continue Reading »
My colleague at Houston Baptist University, Sara Frear, entered the blogosphere today. I think her inaugural piece, “No News Is Good News,” might be of interest to many readers of First Things . At one point she writes: But is the good really the norm? With all the brokenness of . . . . Continue Reading »
“Father’s Day is to neckties what St. Patrick’s Day is to beer,” says R. R. Reno in today’s column . The commercialization almost certainly distorts our proper impulse to honor our mothers and fathers, but in the main it’s a good thing. Those tee-totaling matronly . . . . Continue Reading »
“Will Davis Campbell, who died earlier this month at age 88,” says Timothy George in today’s column , “was one of the last surviving icons of the civil rights movement.” Wherever violence erupted or trouble threatened—at lunch counters, boycotts, voting lines, in . . . . Continue Reading »
In short piece for The American Scholar , William Deresiewicz reflects on the holy words of a (supposedly) secular culture . These are words, Deresiewicz suggests, that are “possessed of something like magical powers, a kind of ideological open sesame .” He lists freedom , equality , and . . . . Continue Reading »
The 2012 Israeli film “Fill the Void,” now being released in the U.S., is almost unique in being about haredi Jews and directed by a member of that sector. Haredi Jews are that sector of orthodox Jews who isolate themselves as much as possible from gentile, and indeed from all . . . . Continue Reading »
THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE’s “State of the Union” has seen that Pete. And Rick Santorum doesn’t measure up yet. . . . . Continue Reading »
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