Peter Berger reports that more religious citizens are—-counter t0 many assumptions—- actually less likely to support the death penalty: Support for the death penalty correlates negatively with degree of religious involvement – 65% in favor among those who attend services weekly or . . . . Continue Reading »
Who Is David Barton? Randall Stephens, CNN Belief Blog Mormonism Fastest-Growing Faith in US Kevin Eckstrom, USA Today The Death Penalty, Cowboy Culture, and G. K. Chesterton Julie Rodrigues, Ignitum Today Was Machiavelli’s Unbelief Atheism? Nick Spencer, The Guardian . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Boby Jindal, as Pete says, is a better for choice for Mitt than Rubio. It’s sort of ridiculous to speculate on what kind of demographic impact this or that candidate would have. In every case, the answer is: NOT MUCH. The relatively big issue is how the VP choice makes the P candidate . . . . Continue Reading »
The only time I cried reading a political columnist—except when my wife surprised me with a public tribute on our tenth anniversary, but that doesn’t count—was over a wonderful piece written many years ago by George Will about his son Jon who has Down syndrome. I don’t . . . . Continue Reading »
David Frum thinks that Bobby Jindal would be a better vice presidential candidate than Marco Rubio. So do I, but I can’t endorse Frum’s reasoning. Frum writes that Republicans are better off going after Asian-American voters with Jindal as VP than going after Latino voters . . . . Continue Reading »
Unlike Greg Forster , I find Matt Franck’s worries about the reshaping of our foreign policy to promote a very particular and controversial gay-rights agenda wholly understandable. The bending of American foreign policy to prosecute the culture war abroad has been taking place for some time, . . . . Continue Reading »
Obedience, writes Elizabeth Scalia , is a spiritual discipline desperately in need of recovery (especially for American Catholics) given ongoing challenges in the Church and more recent eruptions like the LCWR report. Obedience, or really, our refusal to practice it, is at the heart of most of our . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on Pugin at 200 : The prospect of “redecorating,” or any other form of “home improvement,” generally gets me thinking, quickly, about a lengthy research trip abroad. Yet I can, and recently did, spend several pleasant hours contemplating ceramics, furniture, . . . . Continue Reading »
Most advocates of a MacIntyrian or Aristotelian virtue-ethics might not immediately agree. But consider: Most of our behavior, according to the virtue-ethicist, is in fact predetermined by previous determinations of the will, which usually result in observable patterns of repeated action, . . . . Continue Reading »
Georgia has banned abortion after the 20th week based on research indicating that fetuses may be able to feel pain after that time. From the Reuters story:The abortion measure passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature in late March included exceptions to save the life of the mother and if the . . . . Continue Reading »
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