George Weigel on books for Christmas : The most intellectually exciting book I read this past year was Richard Bauckham’s Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Eerdmans). Unfolding his research like a detective story and deploying the most contemporary . . . . Continue Reading »
In the Beetle Bailey comic strip, the old addled General Halftrack has a dumb blonde secretary with really dangerous curves. Her name, of course, is Miss Buxley. Mort Walker was punning on the word buxom, which is now used only to describe a woman—and not every woman, either! It . . . . Continue Reading »
Having mentioned James Kalb in the item below , I thought I’d post the “Briefly Noted” review of his book we published in the June/July 2009 issue. It was written by then-Junior Fellow Stefan McDaniel. I commend the book, as he does, though I would have used “should” . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, even many or most REPUBLICANS think the president has a mandate to raise taxes . So that means he does, of course. The election has all the meaning that the president can attach it, and Obama is loading it up in a way that, say, Mr. Ceaser didn’t anticipate. I’m not saying that . . . . Continue Reading »
Even with the state of the economy, the effects of secularism, the problems Christians themselves cause, etc., we are still blessed to have a lot of worthy enterprises doing very helpful and interesting work, covering a wide range of perspectives. One of these is the Roman Forum , which next summer . . . . Continue Reading »
Update: Michigan’s anti-Sharia bill is now one of many items on the calendar for Thursday—-the last day of the year’s session. No indication yet of how likely it is to receive a vote, though on November 29 CAIR Michigan executive director Dawud Walid was willing to . . . . Continue Reading »
Jonathan Rauch has turned a lot of heads with this article on the economic challenges of the working class. One of his major themes is how those challenges relate to the breakdown of marriage among that population. Three cheers to him for owning that issue, and sounding the alarm about what a . . . . Continue Reading »
Even those who are more fond of G. K. Chesterton than Elliot Milco is may enjoy Max Beerbohm’s parody of the prince of paradox. Here’s an excerpt: It is always in reference to those things which arouse in us the most human of all our emotions—I mean the emotion of . . . . Continue Reading »
Evangelizing via Meme Ryan Scheel and Brandon Vogt, Brandon Vogt Stereotypes, Risks, and Jesus: An Interview Mark Driscoll and John Piper, Resurgence Albert O. Hirschman, RIP Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution The Decline of Honor in the Twentieth Century Brett and Kate McKay, Art of Manliness . . . . Continue Reading »
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