Christy Wampole, French professor at Princeton, tries to rally readers against irony, calling it a “pattern of negation [that] siphons energy from the cultural reserves of the community at large.” There’s certainly a wrong way to go about irony: that kind of perpetually cynical, . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, Matt Schmitz posted about the decision by the General Synod of the Church of England to reject women bishops. At question time in the House of Commons today, UK Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about yesterday’s decision. According to the Guardian , Cameron said he was . . . . Continue Reading »
This is going to be an odd essay. The argument, in a nut-shell, is that those officially charged with being our youth leaders, whether by religious groups or schools, as well as those who unofficially are youth leaders, simply by being youths themselves that their peers might follow if invited and . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on Cardinal Martini and secular culture : Eighteenth-century British Jacobites wistfully toasted “the king over the water,” referring to exiled King James II, his successors, and the Jacobite hope for a Stuart restoration to the throne of the United Kingdom. Throughout the . . . . Continue Reading »
Search giant Google has an official “in-house philosopher,” Stanford Philosophy Ph.D Damon Horowitz : To illustrate how ethics are getting short-shrift in the tech world, Horowitz asked attendees whether they prefer the iPhone or Android. (When the majority voted for the iPhone, he . . . . Continue Reading »
John Podhoretz announces that he no longer opposes gay marriage : As it happens, like our president, I was for a long time an opponent of gay marriage. I am not any longer —indeed, I am relieved that on Tuesday night citizens of four states chose freely to allow gay marriage within their . . . . Continue Reading »
Mormons Surprise Storm Victims Maura Grunlund, SI Advance In the Land Where Everybody Is a Protestant Mark Shea, Patheos Stripping the Constitution Justin Dyer, The Public Discourse The Conservative Future David Brooks, New York Times A Forgotten Massacre in Pennsylvania Look in the Mirror . . . . Continue Reading »
The folks at this AEI panel were big on the importance of conservatives listening to rather than just talking at people who are not already on that side. So in that spirit, I’m going to give an example of a Republican politician listening . . . to conservatives..on health care. That . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s the federal district judge’s ruling in Hobby Lobby’s suit against the HHS mandate. Non-religious corporations don’t have religious liberty under the First Amendment and aren’t persons protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The . . . . Continue Reading »
My review of Prof. Joseph Crespino’s new biography of Strom Thurmond is in the current edition of National Review : The black comedian Dick Gregory said in 1971 that race relations in America were easy to understand: “In the North they don’t care how big I get, long as I . . . . Continue Reading »
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