It is still close enough that Romney could win. The Romney team hasn’t given up yet. We’ll know when the Romney team has given up. It will be when anonymous Romney staffers start leaking to liberal-leaning news outlets that Romney is losing because of the Tea . . . . Continue Reading »
In the same Wilson Quarterly issue I linked to last week , First Things’ own Wilfred M. McClay reflects on what the perennially relevant Alexis de Tocqueville can teach us today , especially on the subject of education. McClay reviews the genesis of Democracy . . . . Continue Reading »
Pursuant to my brief post on the defeat of M-312, one commenter (David Nickol) observes that the motion was, if I may so paraphrase, ill-considered: M312 would have set up a committee in parliament to answer the following questions: (i) what medical evidence exists to demonstrate that a child is or . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart on restoring theology as the queen of the sciences : While I’m at it, I’d like to get rid of another copulative. The founders of the modern world kept theology at bay by subdividing theology’s little ghetto. Divide and marginalize has been modernity’s strategy . . . . Continue Reading »
For This Employer, Faith Is No Hobby Gerald Russello, National Catholic Register Stop Whining About Relativism—Take on the Experts Peter Lawler, Big Think Emergency Contraception Won’t Decrease Teen Pregnancies Greg Pfundstein, Public Discourse Bring Back Blasphemy Laws? James Bowman, . . . . Continue Reading »
So this afternoon at 530 I’m giving a talk to the Tocqueville Society (the really big givers) of the Atlanta United Way. It’s at the Druid Hills Country Club and you’re invited to come (I just found out). You don’t have to instantly become a big giver. Here’s something . . . . Continue Reading »
I basically agree with Ramesh Ponnuru. I think Romney is behind. I don’t think that Gallup and Fox News have joined the vast media conspiracy to demoralize Republican voters and I don’t think that they misplaced their calendars and still think it is 2008. But I don’t think Romney . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m not sure we are seeing all the sources of resentment against the fabled 47% who don’t pay income taxes. Romney was caught affecting to despise and write off this 47% who, according to Romney: a) Don’t pay income taxes. b) Are going to vote for Obama. c) Are dependent and think . . . . Continue Reading »
From Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters : My impression of Republicans, after living among them as an interested and sympathetic observer for almost two years, [is that] as a group you have almost no confidence that any serious thinker could be with you on any issue of consequence. . . . . Continue Reading »
Ever since 1803, all Germans citizens registered with the government as Catholics, Protestants, or Jews have paid a “church tax.” 8-9% of the individual’s income tax bill goes to the government, which holds on to the money for a little while before passing it on to the church of . . . . Continue Reading »
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