Joe Carter

Gen. Khattiya Sawatdiphol, 59, better known as Seh Daeng, was allied with the protesters. He was struck in the head by a bullet during an interview with this reporter. New York Times reporter Thomas Fuller is shockingly blasé about a guy getting shot while he’s interviewing him(!). . . . . Continue Reading »

“Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes . . . . Continue Reading »

David Hart’s recent essay on the New Atheists has been receiving a great deal of attention—and criticism. At the risk of piling on, I have to add a complaint of my own. There is one part of his essay where he stretches a congenial concession into a dangerously misleading claim: Skepticism . . . . Continue Reading »

Each year, PayScale ranks college degrees based on their earnings potential. Not surprisingly, theology and religious studies ranked near the bottom, proving once again that they should be used to help you store up treasures in heaven since they won’t earn you riches down here on earth. The . . . . Continue Reading »

In The New Atlantis , Patrick Deneen argues that science and global competition have hollowed out the liberal arts : When conservative critics of our universities nowadays lament the decline of liberal education, they usually decry its replacement by a left-leaning politicized agenda. But the . . . . Continue Reading »

Deborah Markus, at Secular Homeschooling , has a list of retorts for homeschooling parents tired of the inane questions and complaints they get about educating their own children: 1. Please stop asking us if it’s legal. If it is — and it is — it’s insulting to imply that . . . . Continue Reading »

First Things senior editor David Goldman appeared last night on the Kudlow Report to discuss the continued risks to the financial system. Part I Part II . . . . Continue Reading »

Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris on the epistemological equivalent of “There are no atheists in foxholes”: It has become fashionable nowadays to speak of the subjectivity or the relativity of truth. I find such talk ridiculous at best. Let’s go back to Randall Dale Adams. He . . . . Continue Reading »

Philip Weiss makes an intriguing argument that Jews are replacing WASPs as the American Establishment—and explains why it won’t last: The Kagan appointment means that we have entered a period in which Jews are equal members, if not actually predominant members, of the American . . . . Continue Reading »

As a member of the last generation of Cold Warriors, this sight warms my heart: American troops marching through Red Square . U.S. troops marched through Red Square for the first time in a Victory Day parade on Sunday as Russia celebrated the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II. It was a . . . . Continue Reading »