Karen Swallow Prior interviews pastor Tim Keller about his new book, The Meaning of Marriage : One of the paradoxes you talk about is how the commitment of marriage actually produces freedom: the freedom to be truly ourselves, the freedom to be fully known, the freedom to be there in the future for . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacare is profoundly unpopular. Ohio provided vivid evidence of that disdain today, when voters by about 2-1 rejected Obamacare’s individual mandate. From the Plain Dealer story:With more than 1.5 million votes tallied, Ohio Issue 3 is winning with more than 66 percent of voters . . . . Continue Reading »
My friends at the Discovery Institute are publishing a monthly on-line newsletter, edited by moi, called The Human Exceptionalist. It is the next step up for the Center for Human Exceptionalism, of which I am co-director.As readers of SHS know, I believe that anti humanism is one of the major . . . . Continue Reading »
Mississippi’s “personhood” amendment may pass later today. Public Policy Polling found that, hours before today’s vote, 45 percent of voters supported the amendment, while 44 percent opposed. The amendment, or Initiative #26 , asks: “Should the term . . . . Continue Reading »
Long before I read his memoir , the first thing I ever knew about the actor Sterling Hayden was what my father told me when we watched Dr. Strangelove — that the man who played the screw-loose Commie-hating General Ripper had once been a Communist himself, had named names to HUAC, and . . . . Continue Reading »
At Books and Culture, Christopher Benson reviews Darryl Hart’s latest book, From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism : Focusing on the evangelical intelligentsia rather than the rank-and-file, he considers “the reasons . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote here a few weeks ago about the European Union’s highest court ruling that products made from embryonic stem cell research cannot be patented. First Things asked me to do a longer article, which appears today in The Public Square. I start by explaining that . . . . Continue Reading »
According to a new Gallup survey , the majority of Democrats remain less likely to attend church weekly and more likely to seldom or never attend church than the national average. . . . . Continue Reading »
In her latest On the Square column , Elizabeth Scalia confronts the idol of American optimism: There are probably ten thousand articles to be found on the Internet all fleshing out their theories of what is behind America’s swift collapse. Curiously, most of them will touch—all without . . . . Continue Reading »
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput on defending human dignity Here’s my first point. We remember Bonhoeffer, Solzhenitsyn, and other men and women like them because of their moral witness. But the whole idea of “moral witness” comes from the assumption that good and evil are real, and that . . . . Continue Reading »
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