Wesley J. Smith on the coming public conflict over human cloning : Ultimately, cloning would be the key that opens the door to countless other brave new world technologies, like one possible future procedure already termed “fetal farming,” whereby cloned fetuses would be matured in . . . . Continue Reading »
So a very kind and patient conservative wrote me on why THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE got so mad at me for merely summarizing the “neocon” position: Well, they’re more excited about Hagel personally than I am. Still, it’s a symbolic victory for realist elements. Incidentally, . . . . Continue Reading »
Today Commentary Magazine ’s website features my contribution to a symposium on the future of conservatism that was published in their January issue. These reflections are part of my larger concerns about the future of American conservatism, which I elaborate on in the Public Square in the . . . . Continue Reading »
One of my favorite things about the Yale Glee Club , of which I was a member for three years, is its attention to and care for old student songs. Every member upon joining is given a Yale Song Book, full of things like “Gaudeamus Igitur,” “‘Neath the Elms”, and, of . . . . Continue Reading »
At least once a month (and I suspect more often if I looked harder), I read an article that tells me that young Evangelicals are sick and tired of the culture war, that they have little or no interest in rushing to the barricades to protect traditional marriage (and so on). There are two versions . . . . Continue Reading »
“Dust you are, and unto dust you shall return,” said the Lord God to Adam after the first sin. It’s a fine translation of the Hebrew, that dust ; it suggests transience and insubstantiality. By the nineteenth century, in Britain at least, the word came to denote . . . . Continue Reading »
The Gold Is a Lie! More on Elizabeth Wurtzel Eve Tushnet, Patheos On Friendship Edward Hoagland, The American Scholar How “National” is the National Cathedral? Terry Mattingly, GetReligion The Value of Cultural Relativism Rod Dreher, The American Conservative Is Being . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve written here about the role of Islamic law in Egypt’s new constitution, which voters approved last month. The constitution represents a significant victory for Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood. But, as Walter Russell Mead points out on his blog today, the . . . . Continue Reading »
So let’s do it Peter Lawler style by the numbers— 1. I saw Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained today. What I expected is what I saw, except unlike Inglorious Basterds, Django didn’t rewrite the Civil War to the extent that Inglorious rewrote WWII where Adolf Hitler was actually . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew, thanks for your thoughtful critique of my defense of George Bailey . Here’s what I would say: 1) This goose is happy to meet the gander : You ask, “why the implicit confidence that this process, which ‘liberated’ the nuclear family from a number of wider ties, . . . . Continue Reading »
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