The Federal Reserve recently announced that the $10 dollar bill is getting a redesign: the founder of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, is going to be replaced by a woman.The lucky (though deceased) lady has not yet been determined, and the Treasury is asking the public for input. Therefore I would . . . . Continue Reading »
Ran 7,000 Miles. Putin Still Got Them
Michael Weiss, Daily Beast
Witless Ape Rides Escalator
Kevin D. Williamson, National Review
The End of the Sex Abuse Crisis
Ross Douthat, New York Times
Benedict Option Baptists
Rod Dreher, The American Conservative
Daily Cartoon
Christopher Weyant, The New Yorker
Pope Francis Wants to Roll Back Modernity: Is the World Ready?
Matthew Schmitz, Washington Post
Those of us who know Ryan Anderson have certain adjectives that come naturally to mind when we think of the country's most visible and effective under-40 defender of the truth about marriage. (And if I thought about it, I might drop the “under-40” qualifier.) Fearless, composed, tenacious, . . . . Continue Reading »
“Everybody Worships”
Alissa Wilkinson, Books and Culture
The State of the American Mind: Anti-intellectualism in America more than 25 years after Allan Bloom.
Book Forum, American Enterprise Institute
Why the Pope's New Climate-Change Doctrine Matters
Emma Green, The Atlantic
The Only Path to Societal Renewal
Dan McConchie, The Gospel Coalition
You might wonder whether questions as complicated and wrenching for people as these should be handled by contract law, as if they were equivalent to particularly difficult business transactions. Continue Reading »
The Complexity of Being Richard Nixon
Evan Thomas, The Atlantic
Why Is Obama Abandoning 70 Years of U.S. Nonproliferation Policy?
Matthew Kroenig, Tablet
Millenials' Parents Can't Stop Meddling
Jennifer Senior, New York Magazine
Why Bloggers Are Calling it Quits
Amy Julia Becker, Christianity Today
The self-serving circus of political candidates and media coverage is on full display right now, and it’s not hard to understand why this job opening attracts such clown-like candidates. People who have an aversion to twenty-four hour public scrutiny, inhumane travel schedules, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Two traditionally Catholic countries recently legalized same-sex marriage. In Ireland, the constitution was amended by popular referendum; in Mexico, the legal change has quietly developed in the nation's court systems. Though Catholic bishops and other church officials in each country purport to adhere to the same theological underpinnings and Church teachings, there are glaring differences in their official responses. Continue Reading »
The Brutal Dictatorship the World Keeps Ignoring
Adam Taylor, Washington Post
Waterloo and Wisdom
Terrance W. Klein, America
Writers Choose Their Favorite Words
Rebecca Mead, New Yorker
Why Bonhoeffer Made the Sign of the Cross
Joel J. Miller, Ancient Faith
At the Center for Law and Religion Forum today, I interview historian Christian Sahner about his recent book, Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present. In the book—the subject of a First Things event last winter—Sahner recounts his time as a student in Syria before the Arab . . . . Continue Reading »
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