Matthew Schmitz

In the wake Barack Obama’s resounding victory on a socially liberal line and the unprecedented success of gay marriage in the referenda in Maine and Maryland, we’re going to hear calls for the abandonment of social issues. As a Christian, I do not think ceaseless talk about . . . . Continue Reading »

Barack Obama ran and won a vigorous social issues campaign. He is now the first man elected president to have endorsed same-sex unions or have made contraception a major campaign theme. (He was already the only man elected president to have voted in favor of partial-birth abortion.) Obama blurred . . . . Continue Reading »

Whatever the result tonight, one thing is certain: America’s embrace of drone attacks will go on unimpeded. Social conservatives have increasingly lined up to express reservations about the policy, with Princeton’s Robert P. George writing against President Obama’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Brandon Watson explains why the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact —-in which states assign their votes in the electoral college to whoever wins the most votes countrywide—- is sheer madhattery : The National Popular Vote idea . . .   is not a national popular vote . It is, . . . . Continue Reading »

In a review of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation , Archbishop Charles J. Chaput laments our current political alternatives: Elections are tough times for serious Catholics. If we believe in the encyclical tradition—from  Rerum Novarum  to  Evangelium Vitae ; . . . . Continue Reading »

Paul Ryan is making headlines in the campaign’s closing hours by saying that President Obama’s policies pose a threat to Judeo-Christian civilization. Ned Resnikoff reports : Two days before the election, Paul Ryan made an urgent appeal to evangelical supporters, claiming that President . . . . Continue Reading »

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Breezy Point, Queens. Dated November 2, 2012. Via Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry . . . . Continue Reading »

Protestant Christians have much to teach the rest of us about loving and dwelling on God’s word. One striking new expression of this piety comes in the form of designing one’s own Bible. An early examplar of what we can hope will become a much more common practice is Chad Whitacre, . . . . Continue Reading »

Randall O’Toole, the Cato Institute’s go-to guy on transportation policy, says New York should consider leaving its flooded subways to rot : After Hurricane Katrina, some people  argued  that we shouldn’t rebuild New Orleans, not simply because it was below sea level but . . . . Continue Reading »