in the Weekly Standard: ...All of the research, however, indicates that in recent years the fertility rate of Hispanic Americans has been moving downward faster than it has for any other ethnic group. Last week the Pew Center reported that from 2007 to 2010 America’s birth rate dropped by 8 . . . . Continue Reading »
In response to my criticisms of the thoughtful—-but ultimately misguided—-defense of anti-Sharia laws published by John Witte in Christianity Today , Matthew Tuininga worries that while legal neutrality works in theory it falls apart in practice : In theory an . . . . Continue Reading »
At FamilyScholars.org , David Blankenhorn is not willing to grant R. R. Reno’s dismissal of the “Selma Analogy.” I’m sure, he says, that Rusty Reno knows as well as anyone that almost no gay people (certainly no openly gay people, or at least none that I can think of) . . . . Continue Reading »
Noah Millman thinks he has located the essence of the conservative temperament in the works of Leo Tolstoy, which is hard to believe. Perhaps you know the old joke about the tenure committee’s verdict on Jesus Christ. (“A fine teacher but didn’t publish.”) Tolstoy’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Obviously, Egypt’s version of the Constitutional Convention is not going as smoothly as everyone might have hoped. The plan was for a Constituent Assembly comprised of Islamists, Christians, and secular deputies to draft and vote on a consensus constitution sometime next January. Things . . . . Continue Reading »
Another protracted presidential election cycle has come and gone, with Americans on one side of the political aisle celebrating victory, and those on the other licking their wounds in dismay. Two months ago in this space I asked whether the United States is becoming the next France , whose politics . . . . Continue Reading »
Mike Murphy issues another call for the GOP to abandon social issues, to which Ben Domenech responds with some demographic debunking : Mitt Romney won white voters under 30, even winning white women under 30. The youth voter barrier to the Republican Party is really the same barrier as it is for . . . . Continue Reading »
“Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Romney Lost” . . . . Continue Reading »
Wesley J. Smith on the high price of establishment : I happened to be in London when the Church of England voted to reject female bishops. The verdict came as quite a surprise. Women have been ordained as priests in the Church for twenty years, and allowing them to become bishops would certainly . . . . Continue Reading »
We Americans believe that slavery is wrong, and we’re appalled that anyone ever believed otherwise. We’re even inclined to tell ourselves that, if we lived a couple centuries ago, we would have been abolitionists. Yet as historian Jay Case writes, we shouldn’t be so smug : You and . . . . Continue Reading »
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