James R. Rogers on his appreciation for Charles Colson : I never met Charles Colson. But the ministry he started played a pivotal role in my life. I don’t know that I would ever have gotten involved in prison ministry some 20 years ago were it not for Prison Fellowship. At that time I was a . . . . Continue Reading »
Democrats like cognac and Republicans enjoy light beers, Thomas B. Edsall reports: Who would have guessed that the most Democratic drink by a long shot is Cognac, or that such lite beers as Amstel Lite, Michelob Ultra, Miller Lite and Sam Adams Light tilt so far to the political right, while Bud, . . . . Continue Reading »
Naomi Schaefer Riley has been bumped from the Chronicle of Higher Education ’s group blog for sharing her thoughts on black studies scholarships: You’ll have to forgive the lateness but I just got around to reading The Chronicle’ s recent piece on the young guns of . . . . Continue Reading »
This is heavy-handed and one’s amusement will depend on one’s views of the target, but some of you will enjoy it: Ayn Randers , an advice column written by one of the last century’s morally coarsest political thinkers. For example: Dear Ayn, I’m dating a man who I think I . . . . Continue Reading »
If one thing doesn’t get you, another will. Transhumanists have such hubris they actually believe they can become near immortal here in the physical world. But nature doesn’t want us to be immortal, it would lead to stagnant pools don’t you know. And now, a new . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things contributor, film director, and new media impresario Tim Kelleher gives an interview to Dr. Adam DeVille of LOGOS in which he discusses the content, formation, and impact of the Nicene Creed: AD: When it comes to the creed, Eastern and Western versions are identical except for one . . . . Continue Reading »
I warned a few months ago in the Weekly Standard that the fight against obesity would become the new global warming, the excuse for more government, higher taxes, and bioethical “expert” dominance. In a word, bloat. And now, the Institute on Medicine proves me right. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
European Elections’ Real Winner: The Far Right Peter Popham, The Independent Secularism, Creativity, and Art Charles Murray, New Criterion Barack Obama & T. S. Eliot Peter Lawler, Big Think Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Narrative Calvinism’ Rachel Stone, . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Berkowitz, as Carl numerically suggests below, has written an article bemoaning the fact that most American liberal-artsy grads have never read THE FEDERALIST. Well, we can doubt that’s the fault of anyone who reads this blog. I’ve taught some of the key papers (close to—but . . . . Continue Reading »
So John figured out quick that the numbers below were the most typically assigned Federalist Papers: had I listed 10, 39, and 51, it would have been even more obvious. So now, the question is, which Federalist Paper, outside of the more commonly read ones, do you find the most interesting? . . . . Continue Reading »
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