Aurelian Craiutu yesterday posted an interesting essay on Tocqueville at the Library of Law and Liberty blog, covering just a single-page chapter on what the nineteenth-century observer termed “pantheism.” It’s from the second part of the voluminous . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, in Al Smith Scandal? , Anna Williams wrote on the controversial invitation to President Obama to attend the annual Al Smith Dinner. Offering a more critical response are our friends at the Human Life Review , who just posted an article from the upcoming issue which, though written . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell E. Saltzman ponders the question of why God creates : “What was God doing before creation?” is another stumper but here there are some answers—of a sort. Augustine flat declared it was impossible even to ask inasmuch as there never will be an answer, so there. I like . . . . Continue Reading »
I have noticed that my writing seems to flow in patterns. Much of that is caused by the flow of news, but I think some of it has to do with certain stories getting my attention, after which I connect dots and become acutely conscious of certain ebbs and flows of advocacy. . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve read several conservatives who argue that Paul Ryan will “will wipe the floor with Vice President Joe Biden in their one debate in October.” I don’t think that is a realistic assumption. Ryan has worked very hard to make himself expert on one (important) . . . . Continue Reading »
“I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.” -Flannery . . . . Continue Reading »
Daniel Silliman tackles a problem familiar to this editor: Is it “Evangelical” or “evangelical,” majuscule or miniscule, capitalized or not? The problem encompasses other terms like “deist,” “atheist,” and “charismatic.” In the chart . . . . Continue Reading »
Sorry that I have had so little to say about anything in the last few days. This morning’s Drudge Report headline grabbed me, though it comes from the Weekly Standard. Today, a meeting at the White House between the president, Hillary Clinton and the vice president. What is . . . . Continue Reading »
The Netherlands opened the doors to euthanasia way back in 1973. Since then, it has fallen off a vertical moral cliff with the killing agenda having spread to the pediatric wards. the mentally ill, and now stalking the elderly “tired of life”—all reported here and in my other . . . . Continue Reading »
Why the Amish Population Is Exploding Nate Berg, Atlantic Cities Freedom’s Bundles and Lynchpins Thomas Farr, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs We Love Her, That Is All Sally Thomas, Castle in the Sea Can You Be a Catholic and Have a Questioning Mind? . . . . Continue Reading »
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