About two weeks ago, I asked: if this is really a “culture war,” what does winning look like ? I was responding to Maggie Gallagher’s outstanding commentary on the recent unpleasantness. I wrote that I still supported the fight against the deinstitutionalization of marriage, but I . . . . Continue Reading »
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine was sold to a gullible public on the promise of developing embryonic stem cell and therapeutic cloning CURES! CURES! CURES! that the eeeevilll Bush was thwarting. But, when that didn’t work out—and desperate to show some . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s another fragment for my ISI lecture. Be assured this isn’t my view. And I’m getting around to the Declaration of Independence: Some conservatives say that what distinguishes America is that ours is the most modern and untraditional or unhinged country. Certainly there . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, I received this sad email that I copy in below. I append my response below it. Kate - I served as a Lance Corporal in the Marines for over three years. During that time, I was raped twice and sexually assaulted twice more. It happened so often that I assumed it must be normal. . . . . Continue Reading »
Herbert Hoover’s American Exceptionalism John Hendrickson, Library of Law and Liberty Same-Sex Marriage and the Revolt Against Metropolitan Jonah Fr. Johannes Jacobse, American Orthodox Institute What’s in a Name, or “The Individual Mandate is a Unicorn” Bruce P. . . . . Continue Reading »
Like John Presnall, I have Sirius XM radio in my car. So I was driving home yesterday and I heard William Kristol on the 4:00 PM FOX News show. Kristol was touting (though not entirely endorsing) Condoleezza Rice for Vice President. Romney choosing Rice would be a serious . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Sullivan used to make the “conservative” case for re-defining marriage, arguing that recognizing same-sex sexual partnerships as marriages would spread traditional norms of monogamy and sexual fidelity where promiscuity and “open” partnerships tended to . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve have a strangely debilitating and demoralizing summer cold. No comments, please, about my lack of manliness in whining about something I should find easy to fight through and rise above. But I’ve started to work on my talk next week at the ISI honors program. It’s on . . . . Continue Reading »
A newly ordained bishop of the persecuted Church in China has chosen fidelity over personal comfort and political accommodation . Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin was whisked away just hours after he announced his resignation from the leadership of the Patriotic Catholic Association, or PCA, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Religious liberty is critical, President Obama says in an interview , but not as critical as providing contraceptive coverage: Yeah. Well it’s absolutely true that religious liberty is critical. I mean that’s what our country was founded on. That’s the reason why we exempted . . . . Continue Reading »
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