Erstwhile conservative (if I’m being generous) David Brooks laments the state of the conservative mind. When, apparently in another life, he worked for National Review , there were traditionalist conservatives and free market types. Now, he says, the free marketeers have totally . . . . Continue Reading »
In a 2004 Christianity Today cover story that helped introduce “emergent Christianity” to the Evangelical mainstream, CT editor Andy Crouch expressed hope that Brian McLaren’s project would not prove to be a revival of liberal Christianity: It’s not that . . . . Continue Reading »
at RandomHouse.ca (via Andrew Sullivan): ...In fact, comparing beer commercials from the Ukraine and the U.S. led Lantolf and Bobrova to an unexpected finding that highlights differences in how Americans and Ukrainians think about people. In the Ukrainian commercials, the study notes, “people . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on how the U.S. press plays Pravda : On September 11, on the eleventh anniversary of the worst attack yet endured on our shores, U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three aides were murdered, and their headquarters in Benghazi sacked. The U.S. Press unquestioningly accepted . . . . Continue Reading »
On the anniversary of the birth of the great film-maker Robert Bresson, our friend Shmuel Ben-Gad sends the link to an interview with the director . It’s in French, but subtitled. Bresson directed Diary of a Country Priest and The Trial of Joan of Arc among other films. Here is a . . . . Continue Reading »
At first glance it seems to be a Romney nightmare scenario : Which leads to Romney’s nightmare scenario: If things don’t turn around for Romney soon, those super PACs may give up on the task of electing Romney as president and turn to the task of encircling Obama’s second term with a . . . . Continue Reading »
I promised to say more about this survey . In many respects, white working class Americans take a view of our current economic circumstances that lines up reasonably well with conventional Republican wisdom. They are more likely than their college-educated fellow citizens to think that the . . . . Continue Reading »
That how Brian Domitrovic , the only American who understands completely how and why supply-side economics actually works, characterizes our new monetary policy: The idea is that if all the spending and regulation of the last few years has only resulted in nil growth, stubborn unemployment, . . . . Continue Reading »
The New Gender Economics Sandra Tsing Loh, The Atlantic What Is Morality Other Than Harm? Collin Hansen, The Gospel Coalition Anti-Islamic Ads Cleared for NYC Subway April Fehling, NPR Hagiography Made Simple Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing C. S. Lewis & Evolution Tom Bethell, The American . . . . Continue Reading »
Most proper scientists regard publicity as something of an affliction. After years of specialized and outwardly incomprehensible labors, when it comes time to go public with their findings, their hard-won conclusions are always twisted by illiterate newsmen to fit the crass demands of . . . . Continue Reading »
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