Due to Democratic malice and Republican stupidity (mainly the latter), a soft version of progressivism might again be ambiguously popular. But the progressive vision of bigger government remains unsustainable, because the tax increase is insignificant as a funding device: If even under the . . . . Continue Reading »
“I Must Watch Over You”: On Familial Responsibility Carrie Frederick Frost, The Clarion Review Brutal Presbyterian Disunity John Turner, The Anxious Bench Durkheim, Faith, and Sensibility Gordon Lynch, The Guardian Splitting the Difference on Illegal Immigration Peter Skerry, National . . . . Continue Reading »
I have no idea how Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s translation of The Brothers Karamazov came to be regarded as definitive. Let me rephrase that. I know why. Fourteen thousand copies a year, practically indefinitely, is why. There’s a lot of money at stake, for them and for . . . . Continue Reading »
So now, it seems, we have rather a good test for the elite media. We know how reporters and commentators would be reacting to this story on the arrest of an Occupy Wall Street protestor and his girlfriend if the people arrested were (or were thought to be) tea party activists, do we not? So . . . . Continue Reading »
A day late to mark the anniversary, but an anniversary worth commending to your notice a day late: the death of Roberto Clemente, the great Pirates outfielder who was, from all accounts (and I mean all accounts), a very admirable man as well, who did many of his good works in secret. . . . . Continue Reading »
Statement from Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga): “This 11th-hour negotiation is no way to run a country, but I voted for this agreement because it protects 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase, permanently protects tens of thousands of farmers and family businesses from having to pay the . . . . Continue Reading »
For many years now I’ve been teaching my students that a constitution is more than a scrap of paper but is to be found in the deeper principles and commitments of a particular political community. Here in Canada in recent decades we have embraced the notion that our constitution is identical . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m posting this in a most self-indulgent way to get your reaction. So Protestants in their way degraded marriage by depriving it of sacramental status as a manifestation of the divine personal logos in this world. Marriage became predominately natural but still somewhat Christian. It . . . . Continue Reading »
Jewish ultranationalist (and founder of the Jewish Defense League) Meir Kahane, whose Kach party was disqualified on grounds of racism from seeking seats in the Israel’s Knesset, used to say to his fellow Israelis “I say what you think.” After publishing this op-ed in . . . . Continue Reading »
Georgetown Law Professor Michael Seidman says in the New York Times that we should conclude, “the American system of government is broken” not because of political divisions, but because of the Constitution “with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.” . . . . Continue Reading »
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