Provocative editorial in the American Spectator by Peter Hitchens . Like Ivan Kenneally (see below for his fine piece) although without the modernity-analysis, Hitchens locates the source of the rising anarchy not mainly with the late 80s-to-present advocacy for SSM, but with the way the Sexual . . . . Continue Reading »
India Ink blog: After decades of fixing arranged marriages for their children, Indian parents are taking on a new challenge: trying to orchestrate their kids’ love marriages. A new generation of young Indian professionals has refused to follow the arranged-marriage route, with its emphasis on . . . . Continue Reading »
Today is the 98th anniversary of the start of the Armenian Genocide, an ethnic cleansing campaign in the last years of the Ottoman Empire. Although the Genocide had many causes—political, economic, social—law and religion were major factors. As Christians, Armenians had a . . . . Continue Reading »
The State Funerals of Christendom Mark Tooley, American Spectator Church as New Mode of Consciousness Just Thomism Prodigals and Preachers Eve Tushnet, Acculturated Jane Austen, Game Theorist Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times Doctors Advance John Paul II Sainthood Andrea Tornielli, Vatican . . . . Continue Reading »
So says our friend Ivan the K . . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »
Ramesh Ponnuru has a great article in opposition to a guest worker program. We should welcome new immigrants as prospective citizens. If you look at that article alongside Ponnuru’s articles on taxes and the Republican party’s agenda problem, you can see the outline of a . . . . Continue Reading »
Stanley Kurtz argues that the Gang of Eight Deal was so bad because the Republicans on the Gang of Eight were rolled by the Democrats. Kurtz writes: Were our negotiators just stupid? I don’t think so. They were desperate. They believed that it was necessary to put the immigration issue . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Ashbrook Center’s website, David Tucker , of the Naval Postgraduate School and an Ashbrook fellow asks us to consider how much freedom we would sacrifice to be safe from terrorism. Living in freedom means living with risk. It means accepting danger. The only way . . . . Continue Reading »
The ad, showing Jesus in Converse sneakers, contains the tag line “All Faces. Everyday Understanding.” Adweek deadpans of the new, hip Christ that “There is . . . no record that he ever actually turned water into PBR.” As a friend of mine remarked in reference to recent . . . . Continue Reading »
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