I’ve waited to discuss the most important of our modal auxiliaries, the word that is the past tense of will, and also therefore the marker for our conditional tenses: would. We call ’em conditional because they hold true only if certain conditions are . . . . Continue Reading »
Yuval has done better than anyone is showing how coherent, ambitious, and hugely partisan the speech was. The Declaration, we remember, has been the most effective partisan weapon in our nation’s history. Here’s Yuval’s view of president’s view of the Declaration’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Abstraction Rightly Understood James Matthew Wilson, Front Porch Republic Happy 100th, Carl Henry Jordan J. Ballor, Touchstone Reading Writers I Can’t Stand Maria Bustillos, New Yorker It’s Time for a New Feminism Elise Italiano, Public Discourse How Abortion Became an Evangelical . . . . Continue Reading »
I was struck yesterday, on the 40th memorial of Roe v. Wade, by several statements by those favoring legal abortion who stressed the “need to protect the right to choose for the sake of our daughters.” Our daughters. Hmmmm . . . . Every child (or, if you prefer, since it changes . . . . Continue Reading »
Australia is an English-speaking country, technically, but as an American immigrant here I sometimes have trouble understanding the locals. (What’s a “galah”? Can you eat it for brekkie?) They, on the other hand, have almost no trouble understanding me, with all the American . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t know much about the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, except that I read somewhere that he gave his wife Nadezhda a pacifier and persuaded her to wear it around her neck on a string of pearls so that he could stick the pacifier in her mouth whenever she interrupted him, which apparently . . . . Continue Reading »
I agree with Paul Seaton in this thread. The move from “liberal” to “progressive” was mostly a branding response to changing public understanding of the term “liberal.” I can’t find it right now, but in David Frum’s book on the 1970s he wrote about . . . . Continue Reading »
This has to be one of the more creepy ads of the year, right up there with Lena Dunham’s voting-is-like-sex ad for Obama. Ryan Bomberger is an African-American pro-lifer who runs the Radiance Foundation. He said this, “The Center for Reproductive Rights, like Planned Parenthood, . . . . Continue Reading »
The pro-life movement has always been accused of opposing the progress of women, trying to expel them from the workplace and entrap them in the home to do nothing but prepare food and bear children. Now that women lead the pro-life movement (a development that not even the Washington Post and the . . . . Continue Reading »
Lutherans, according to Reuters, “bristle” at the idea that the Catholic Church might offer a group for converts from Lutheranism who want to keep aspects of their tradition, as Anglicans wee offered an “ordinariate” in Benedict’s Anglicanorum Coetibus . Rev Martin . . . . Continue Reading »
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