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CNN asked the Socialist Party USA if they think he’s a socialist : Obama’s opponents have long described him as a socialist. But what do actual socialists think about Obama? Not much, says Wharton. “He’s the president whose main goal is to protect the wealth of the richest 5 . . . . Continue Reading »

Last week, Ryan , Micah , and I discussed the legal and moral implications of targeting Anwar Al-Awlaki, a terrorist who happens to be a U.S. born citizen. Since then Adam Serwer has pointed out a speech that may shed some light on the issue. In a recent lecture to the American Society of . . . . Continue Reading »

After the 2008 election I was invited to attend a meeting of young conservatives in Washington, D.C. to discuss the future of the movement. Although I was flattered to be asked to participate it was unclear why I was included. Out of the forty people in attendance I was, at the age of thirty-eight, . . . . Continue Reading »

You know I remember when the war first broke out, and we all said to each other, OK, we have to learn the “stans.” You know? It’s not just Kyrgyzstan, but you’ve got all the other stans in that area. — Kyra Phillips discovers that land wars in Asia force CNN anchors to . . . . Continue Reading »

Doug Wilson argues that without property rights there are no human rights: As Christians talk about governmental thieveries, the discussion of these issues in America has an additional layer, and that layer, just like all the others, is unfriendly to tyrants. I want to argue that property is a . . . . Continue Reading »

The shelves in my office are overflowing with so many books that I’ve started hiding them other places around the house (the bathroom closest now has a complete set of the Harvard Classics). My wife can’t understand why I need to keep buying even more books (and she doesn’t even . . . . Continue Reading »

Last August I expressed dismay at the practice of legislators voting on bills when they haven’t read. Members of Congress seem to think the idea of having them—rather than staffers—read the legislation is some kind of absurd demand by a public that doesn’t understand how things . . . . Continue Reading »

In a review of Robert Alter’s Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible , Adam Kirsch explains how Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was influenced by the KJV while being a sort of anti-Bible: The irony is that Melville uses these biblical tropes in constructing a book that is a . . . . Continue Reading »

You are absolutely right, Anthony . Contrary to what many secularists claim–and many Christians believe–we evangelicals are not all that politically involved. Sure, like most Americans we talk a lot about politics, just like we talk a lot about sports and religion. But the claim that we . . . . Continue Reading »

New Testament scholar Scot McKnight says the attempts to discover the “historical” Jesus have failed—and that it’s a good thing. In the 1980s, the central academic organization for biblical studies, the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), was energized in remarkable ways by . . . . Continue Reading »