Don’t miss this. It is the best essay I have read on the liberal dominance of higher education in a long time . Nothing fancy, just the situation. Yarbrough, a professor of political science at Bowdoin, and the author of excellent books on TR and TJ , responded to her school newspaper’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember, New Yorkers, David Mills will be speaking at the C. S. Lewis Society tonight: “A Writer Looks at How Lewis Wrote So Well” Friday, April 12 7:30 p.m. The Parish House of The Church of the Ascension 12 West 11th St, New York, NY Further . . . . Continue Reading »
Endorsement and Academic Freedom John Garvey, Touchstone The Rise of Evangélicos Elizabeth Dias, Time Twenty Poems to Save America Tony Hoagland, Harper’s The Economic Logic of the New Domesticity Ann Friedman, New Republic Hit Jobs and Tolerance Kieran Raval, Juicy Ecumenism . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan Salam just nails it in this post on immigration policy. Every Republican talking about immigration should read it. . . . . Continue Reading »
There is something to be said for Peter Lawler’s suggestion that Rick Santorum can be seen, in part, as a right-wing version of a left-wing reactionary. I read Claire Berlinski’s excellent book on Thatcher and I was struck by some of the wrinkles in the coal miners’ strike. Of . . . . Continue Reading »
God’s people have sung the Psalms for millennia, especially in dark times when it seems that he has abandoned them. One young man nearly four hundred years ago found himself in a horribly difficult situation. His name was Wojciech Bobowski (c. 1610—1675), a Polish Reformed Christian who . . . . Continue Reading »
Many pro-lifers have noted mainstream news outlets’ refusal to cover the ongoing trial of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell. Today, that observation made USA Today ’s op-ed page, as Kirsten Powers writes : A Lexis-Nexis search shows none of the news shows on the three . . . . Continue Reading »
Sarah Degner Riveros argues that pro-lifers must learn to talk about rape : An inability to discuss rape is a particular problem for the pro-life movement. Instead of listening to survivors and believing them, pro-lifers sometimes make the argument that rape studies overestimate the prevalence of . . . . Continue Reading »
Today and tomorrow, Touro Law School is hosting the fourth annual Religious Legal Theory Conference. This is a traveling conference that gathers law and religion scholars from around the world; past hosts include Seton Hall, St. John’s, and Pepperdine Law Schools. This year’s theme is . . . . Continue Reading »
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