Why do they want marriage?

One used to see a great deal more of this kind of rhetoric : Instead of applying its impressive muscle to creating an alternative to this hoary, unsecular, historically sexist, and needlessly restrictive institution, the movement instead opted to perpetuate it. If the status quo could be expanded . . . . Continue Reading »

Defining Discourse Down

No one has mistaken our day as an age of powerful, rational discourse. The McLaughlin Group doesn’t usually evoke memories of Lincoln-Douglas, and Twittering about your favorite bagel from Panera isn’t exactly correspondence on the level of John and Abigail Adams.But perhaps I’m being unfair. . . . . Continue Reading »

Obama and the Psychologization of Belief

As a card-carrying member of the "bitter block", I have a number of bones to pick with an intellectual trend on the left that I like to call the "psychologization of belief." I’ll define it as a rhetorical move which dismisses opposing claims by relegating to the status of . . . . Continue Reading »