Mackubin Thomas Owens doesn’t think mixing men and women on the front lines is a good idea: “The glue of unit cohesion is what the Greeks called philia —friendship, comradeship, or brotherly love. In The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle , J. Glenn Gray described the . . . . Continue Reading »
An addendum to my post at firstthings.com today: There’s a generational issue that the aging leaders of the religious right needs to be addressed in a serious way. Most of my students and younger colleagues do not identify in any way with the old religious right. They are anti-abortion and . . . . Continue Reading »
Whether it’s what Americans wanted to vote for, what we actually collectively voted for was stasis. George Friedman says this at the Stratfor site this morning: “The national political dynamic has resulted in an extended immobilization of the government. With the House — a body . . . . Continue Reading »
The Economist has the best obits, but they’ve outcome even their usual standards with the March 31 obituary of Lyn Lusi, a Baptist missionary in Congo, who died on March 17. The obit includes this moving description of the beginnings of HEAL Africa, the ministry that Lusi and her husband Jo . . . . Continue Reading »
Martin Peretz, never one to mince words, has some harsh ones for Obama regarding his comments to Medvedev: ” the message, the important one, concerns us, here in America. It is that the American people can’t be trusted if the president is honest with them about what he proposes. More . . . . Continue Reading »
Stratfor analyst Scott Stewart wisely notes that panic in the face of terrorism plays into the hands of terrorists. Panic is what they want. And he explains that the media, internet, and even government can be “terror magnifiers”: “The traditional news media are not alone in the . . . . Continue Reading »
BBC News reports that the US has been pressuring African countries to promote the gay rights agenda: “President Barack Obama has ordered US government agencies to put gay rights at the heart of foreign policy . . . . The US has said it will use foreign aid and diplomacy to fight . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s Daily Telegraph , Fraser Nelson reviews the recent threats to Christians in the Middle East: “The Arab Spring was always going to mean danger for religious minorities, unleashing the Islamic extremists who previously were kept at bay. For all their evil, the old secular . . . . Continue Reading »
Smith argues that Hardt and Negri’s proposals for resistance to empire are insufficiently radical (FL is “libertarian freedom”): “what the multitude desires is absolute freedom, and what the multitude opposes in Empire is its repression and restriction of freedom. But just . . . . Continue Reading »
Many have commented on the lack of focus in the “Occupy X” movement that has spread throughout the world. That’s not surprising, though, if we recognize that the movement is taking its theoretical cues (such as they be) from writers like Hardt and Negri. If, as they argue, we have . . . . Continue Reading »
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