Why Was Cranmer Burnt? Rev. Peter Robinson, The Continuum The Democratic Party and the Postwar American Novel Len Gutkin, Democracy A Response to R. J. Snell on Natural Law Thaddeus J. Kozinski, Anamnesis Pope Francis’ Economics Joe Carter, Acton Institute The Ignatius-Francis Connection Tim . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m On The Square talking about Rand Paul. . . . . Continue Reading »
The cynic in doglike dismissal says the HBO TV series Girls is the most asinine way to spend one’s half hour on Sunday nights. Yet the cynic continues to watch—even as he waits for the new season of Game of Thrones too. The trials and tribulations of Hannah and her loosely held crew of . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter’s correct that the fear that a future Supreme Court making FDR’s Second Bill of Rights a real part of our Constitution isn’t terribly relevant right now. Commenter djf is right that it’s still possible, but I think what Peter has in mind is that any future Court liberal . . . . Continue Reading »
Because I gotz THE POWER, I’m creating a separate post on my responses to some of the excellent issues raised in the thread to my narratives in retreat post below. djf, the vast expansion of the welfare state you fear is pretty unlikely. As Yuval has pointed out, the expansion of taxation . . . . Continue Reading »
American liberals need conservatives to be racist as justification for resisting change to the status quo of our government in terms of social programs and “entitlement” spending. Does it follow that conservatives must be racist? Funny, I don’t feel racist. What brings this up? At . . . . Continue Reading »
St. Patrick’s Day: A great excuse to . . . brush up on early-church Trinitarian heresies. Footnotes to the fifth-century Irish peasants’ lecture here . via Lutheran Satire . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Sorry to have been out of touch. But glad to see Pete and Carl posting on how conservatives are getting whipped on the narrative or “branding” front. 2. On FDR’s Second Bill of Rights: I agree it was an effort at “refounding.” I also think it failed. Our Court . . . . Continue Reading »
I watched the CPAC speech from conservative donor and philanthropist Foster Friess. Friess said we have to learn from the left: They speak to the heart and the emotion. We have a tendency to speak to the brain and the intellect. I don’t think that is the problem. I think that conservatives do . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at The Weekly Standard, Mark Bauerlein has written a good review, entitled, “Forbidden City,” of what looks to be good book about the liberal stranglehold over academia by one Neil Gross . Bauerlein shows us that Gross, a liberal sociologist who has written a book on Richard Rorty, . . . . Continue Reading »
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