Joe Carter

When the new counterfeit-resistant $100 bill was introduced last week I lamented how ugly our money had become. Today I found even more reason to be discouraged: I see what should have been . Designer Michael Tyznik offers an alternative design that is as beautiful as the real bill is homely. The . . . . Continue Reading »

As I said few months ago, when it comes to the issue of whether waterboarding is torture I trust experts like former Navy SEAL and SERE instructor Malcolmn Nance over speechwriters like Marc Thiessen. Now Nance is offering to help make Theissen an expert on the topic : I spent twenty years in . . . . Continue Reading »

How do you get people to pay for something they can get for free? That’s the question that worries me during our fundraising drive . Obviously, I don’t have the answer. Because, to be perfectly honest, if I did I wouldn’t be working here: I’d be getting rich working for some . . . . Continue Reading »

Is it true, as James Davison Hunter, claims in his new book, that the dominant public witness of the Christian churches in America since the early 1980s has been a political witness? Doug Wilson says, yes, it’s true . . . but : Think about this for a moment. The “most dominant public . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s On the Square feature, we have tributes to the late Cardinal John O’Connor from Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Ed Koch, Brian Caulfield, and Fr. Frank Pavone. . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the most encouraging trends of the last few months has been conservatives finally admitting what most of us have always known: The “starve the beast” strategy—the idea that the best way to shrink the size of the federal government is to continually keep taxes . . . . Continue Reading »

A lot of publications brag about having intelligent, engaged readers. But few magazines have anything comparable to ROFTERS—“Readers Of First Things” who convene across the U.S., Canada, Spain, U.K., and New Zealand to discuss the magazine’s features. Our readership truly is . . . . Continue Reading »

A lot of publications brag about having intelligent, engaged readers. But few magazines have anything comparable to ROFTERS —“Readers Of First Things ” who convene across the U.S., Canada, Spain, U.K., and New Zealand to discuss the magazine’s features. Our readership truly is . . . . Continue Reading »

A street preacher in England was arrested and locked in a cell for seven hours for telling a passer-by that homosexuality is a sin in the eyes of God. As Frank Lockwood , religion editor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , says, “It’s ironic, isn’t it, that the nation that gave us . . . . Continue Reading »

The French writer Vercors (Jean Bruller) begins his novel, You Shall Know Them , just after Douglas Templemore injects his infant son with strychnine chlorhydrate. Although anguished by the killing, the father had planned the act even before the child had been sired. It was his attempt to save the . . . . Continue Reading »