Matthew Schmitz

Roger Scruton takes to the pages of the London  Times  with a circumspect, but terribly cutting, treatment of the push for gay marriage  (sub req): If we ask ourselves how it is that the advocacy of gay marriage has become an orthodoxy to which all our political leaders subscribe, we . . . . Continue Reading »

Filmed September 13 at the Royal Institution, London. . . . . Continue Reading »

In a review of Christine Overall’s  Why Have Children? , Amy L. Wax challenges feminists who simultaneously insist on the mother’s right to choose and the father’s duty to provide : [Overall] argues that the biological father should be charged with full . . . . Continue Reading »

From David Bentley Hart’s  Tsunami and Theodicy : Famously, Dostoevsky supplied Ivan with true accounts of children tortured and murdered: Turks tearing babies from their mothers’ wombs, impaling infants on bayonets, firing pistols into their mouths; parents savagely flogging their . . . . Continue Reading »

To think that only important things matter is the menace of barbarism, Nicolás Gómez Dávila reminds us, and so let us take a moment to turn our attention to New York’s latest fashion trend—men’s leggings, or “meggings.” Mollie Hemingway asks if we can’t all agree that they’re . . . . Continue Reading »

Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats have succeeded in passing a bill that protects the right to perform ritual circumcisions . Yet it was not a unanimous victory: 434 of the Bundestag’s members voted in favor, one-hundred against, with forty-six abstaining. The opponents—-members . . . . Continue Reading »

( Via Gregory Barr ) . . . . Continue Reading »

Update:  Michigan’s anti-Sharia bill is now one of many items on the  calendar for Thursday—-the last day of the year’s session. No indication yet of how likely it is to receive a vote, though on November 29 CAIR Michigan executive director Dawud Walid was willing to . . . . Continue Reading »

The Associated Press reports on a question posted to Justice Scalia at a lecture at Princeton University : Speaking at Princeton University, Scalia was asked by a gay student why he equates laws banning sodomy with those barring bestiality and murder. [ . . . ] “It’s a form of . . . . Continue Reading »

From the  Philadelphia Inquirer : A Mennonite-owned cabinetmaker has filed a federal suit charging that the Affordable Care Act’s mandate on contraception coverage violates its constitutional rights. Conestoga Wood Specialties, citing the principles of religious freedom on which William . . . . Continue Reading »