Thinking of the divisions within the center-right as a conflict between the Republican establishment and Tea Party insurgents is problematic for understanding what is wrong (and what is right) in contemporary conservative politics. The Republican establishment and the Tea Party insurgents each have . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m not a product of the digital world that everyone under thirty seems to take for granted. When I started watching television, we had seven channels. Three of them had bad reception some of the time, and the other four had bad reception most of the time. There was no remote control and the . . . . Continue Reading »
So Pseudoplotinus (aka not THAT Michael Davis) deftly sums up the long and intricately detailed film American Hustle: “Just saw American Hustle. Great, entertaining movie but ultimately not serious about the ethical realities of its story. In the end we’re supposed to sympathize . . . . Continue Reading »
So I did everything I could to make our pope’s teaching a challenge to BIG THINK readers. It goes without saying that what I said goes without saying he should have said too. The church should function as a relational, personal counterweight to both individualism and . . . . Continue Reading »
I ask this of YOU because I can never remember what was best. I got a couple of requests to list the best books of 2013. I failed to think of anything all that good. On movies, I’m sticking with MUD. More soon, but give me some PROMPTS.It was a FESTIVUS MIRACLE . . . . Continue Reading »
The Republican establishment hung Ken Cuccinelli out to dry. They deserve criticism for this, but where were the insurgent conservatives to come to his rescue? Ever since the Dean campaign of 2003-2004, grassroots liberals have developed an infrastructure (and even more a culture) that . . . . Continue Reading »
big Christmas thoughts and the Blind Boys on Colbert . . . . Continue Reading »
So I was pretty moved by Ross Douthat’s observation that the first meaning of Christmas is something like the holiness of ordinary lives. It would bizarrely anachronistic to say Jesus was born into a “white trash” family. But the meaning of being born in a . . . . Continue Reading »
Ramesh Ponnuru has pointed out some of the similarities (which he carefully points out does not mean the identity ) between the political impacts of Obamacare and the Iraq War. Over on twitter, liberal writer Jamelle Bouie has argued that voters will largely judge President Obama based on economic . . . . Continue Reading »
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