Egypt’s Copts Pull Out of Constitution Talks Aya Batrawy, The Globe & Mail Brideshead and Baseball Joseph R. Wood, The Catholic Thing Conservative Misreadings of Jane Jacobs Jason Epstein, NY Review of Books The Emerging ‘Asexuality Movement’ Rachel Hills, . . . . Continue Reading »
Our good friend CJ Wolfe in the thread notes that we postmodern conservatives were prophetic when we pronounced that it won’t be long before liberals become born-again defenders of judicial restraint. But as Pete noticed, the president actually went further, suggesting that judicial review of . . . . Continue Reading »
Social conservative journalist Ramesh Ponnuru (one of my favorites) writes that putting social conservative Rick Santorum on the Republican ticket would be bad for social conservatives. Ponnuru argues that Santorum is too often bad at picking his fights and makes a bad impression with . . . . Continue Reading »
MAD MEN is turning into a hyper-conservative display of the joys of highly erotic and totally fulfilling marital life. The headlines refer to a rather stupid and, of course, failed attempt to contact the Rolling Stones’ manager at a concert during the height of their teeny popularity to do a . . . . Continue Reading »
Jimmy Carter thinks Democrats should talk less about abortion, Caroline May of the Daily Caller reports: “I never have believed that Jesus Christ would approve of abortions and that was one of the problems I had when I was president having to uphold Roe v. Wade and I did everything I could to . . . . Continue Reading »
by the (scary) NEW NOBLEWOMAN . . . . . Continue Reading »
The indispensable Jennifer Roback Morse argues that privatizing marriage is impossible . I’m persuaded that she’s right with respect to the position she chooses to debate, but I wonder how she’d argue against (?) a different position, one that required everyone who chose to . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Thompson, the director general of the BBC, answers what GetReligion finds to be a revealing litmus test: “Would the powers that be in mass media have dared to approve x, y, or z if this particular advertisement, comedy routine, cartoon, Broadway show, movie, music video or whatever had . . . . Continue Reading »
Dale Steinacker on Constitutional babble : The original Star Trek series, with William Shatner as Captain Kirk, would not be the first place one would look for a treatise on Constitutional law. But one episode has an interesting lesson for the Supreme Court to consider as it rules on the Patient . . . . Continue Reading »
I grow weary of that certain species of political animal who constantly complains that too many people are “anti science,” when in reality, they disagree with the advocate’s policy desires about issues that involve scientific research. Example in point: . . . . Continue Reading »
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