Joe Carter

Pharoah created jobs for us. Moses led us away from those jobs. Even though those jobs helped to complete public infrastructure. Even though they were green jobs, where we used our muscles and our backs instead of fossil fuels. Moses could have been part of the ruling class in Egypt. He chose . . . . Continue Reading »

Why don’t pro-life evangelicals have much to say about the Annunciation—or the unborn Jesus? Ted Olsen raises that question in an intriguing article at Christianity Today : One might expect American evangelicals to be among the most enthusiastic celebrants of what is known as the . . . . Continue Reading »

From StrangeMaps : The US is one of the world’s biggest countries, with one of the world’s most numerous populations [1]. The 23rd Census of the United States, now under way, will provide us with updated information on the current size of America’s population, but until then, . . . . Continue Reading »

Did you miss out on the NCAA Basketball tournament because you were reading Middlemarch ? Have you ever argued with friends about the merits of Pale Fire versus Gravity’s Rainbow ? Then this tournament is for you. [caption id=”attachment_14086” align=”alignright” . . . . Continue Reading »

Inauguration Day 2009 was not only a historic day for our nation, it was also a turning point for the antiwar movement: It was the day Democrats stopped opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At least that’s the conclusion that can be drawn from a new a sociology paper on the partisan . . . . Continue Reading »

The American people may not have liked it, but forcing Obamacare on us was necessary for our own good. After all, our liberal technocratic overlords know best—or at least better than we individuals—what is necessary for the pursuit of our happiness. Sure, the measure was unpopular and . . . . Continue Reading »

The concept that the local community—rather than the federal government—is responsible for taking care of the sick is a foreign concept to most Americans. But the Amish still hold to that idea and back in January it looked like Amishcare would trump Obamacare . Unfortunately for them, the . . . . Continue Reading »

In a paper called ” From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years ,” three economists provide an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization. From the abstract: Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s On the Square feature, Robert R. Chase reviews a pair of science fiction novels inspired by Dante’s Inferno : Larry Niven conceived the idea to write a sequel to Dante’s Inferno but worried about its theological underpinnings. He felt that the “naïve Roman . . . . Continue Reading »

Are you sick of arguing/talking/thinking about health care legislation? Me too. We need a distraction, something to take our minds off the nauseating subject. So let me propose a curious argument for your consideration: My tummy hurts. Ergo, there is no god. This argument may be absurd but it’s . . . . Continue Reading »