From F.E.: The Life of F.E. Smith, the First Earl of Birkenhead . Our hero is defending a tram company being sued by the family of a boy injured on the tracks: It was alleged that this boy could no longer work and was unable to raise his arm above the level of his shoulder. Smith was sympathetic . . . . Continue Reading »
If you ask me why conservatism has become intellectually impoverished, my answer is going to be a lot more prosaic than David Brooks’s. He starts his decline-of-the-conservative-mind column with a relatively rare allusion to his years working for National Review , and I could do the same but . . . . Continue Reading »
On 26 September 2012, at the close of Yom Kippur, the Canadian Parliament voted 203–91 against M-312. Children in the womb, for legal purposes, will remain non-persons whose lives may be ended with impunity. But who will atone for that? . . . . Continue Reading »
I have many friends who are non-denominational Christians. I even have a friend that is so non-denominational that he doesn’t even like to call himself non-denominational as a precaution lest the term unintentionally create another denomination. But multi-denominational? In his Confessions of . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve discussed drones on this blog before, generally agreeing that killing enemy combatants with unmanned drones can be morally legitimate but leery about their seemingly indiscriminate use . A new report called ” Living Under Drones ” serves as further proof that our leeriness . . . . Continue Reading »
Daniel Burke writes : There’s a rumor circulating the Internets about Harvard Theological Review rejecting Karen King’s research paper on the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife.” Not so, says Harvard Divinity School spokesman Jonathan Beasley. In an email this morning, Beasley . . . . Continue Reading »
I was recently asked to return to my alma mater, Swarthmore College, to participate in a forum on politics and folk music. Although I could not attend in person because of a conflicting obligation, the organizers invited me to submit some comments to be read at the forum. Here are my remarks: I . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on the future of marriage : In public policy terms, the Catholic critique of gay marriage reflects the Catholic idea of the just state. Rightly understood, marriage is one of those social institutions that exist “prior” to the state: prior in terms of time (marriage existed . . . . Continue Reading »
Update: There remain a few lingering tech issues over at NRO that need to be resolved before the new blog goes live. As soon as they are solved, we will do a redirect so that anyone who comes here, will automatically be sent there. Thanks for all the kind words I have received. . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama’s generally pretty good speech at the U.N. contains this paragraph: The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. But to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see in the images of Jesus Christ that are desecrated, or . . . . Continue Reading »
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