Joe Carter

George Will has an interesting column today on Sarah Palin and “America’s durable but shallow reservoir of populism”: The Republican presidential nominee, an Arizona senator, was a maverick, which was part of his charm. He spoke and acted impulsively, which was part of his . . . . Continue Reading »

If you’ve ever wanted to listen in to lectures on theology and apologetics by R. R. Reno, then you should check out the website for KVSS, a Catholic radio station in Omaha. They have some nicely done and substantive interviews with Reno discussing faith and reason in St. Thomas, John Henry . . . . Continue Reading »

First Things senior editor David Goldman explains why high levels of unemployment may last indefinitely : There are several reasons to believe that most of these jobs never will come back. That is a less contentious statement than it might appear, because the jobs lost in the recessions since 1981 . . . . Continue Reading »

Pew Research finds that in some key ways Americans ages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans and Fewer young adults belong to any particular faith than older people do today: Indeed, Millennials are significantly more unaffiliated than Generation Xers were at a comparable . . . . Continue Reading »

When Secretary of State William H. Seward purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867, the press dubbed the expansionist effort “Seward’s Folly.” Since then the conventional wisdom has been that history vindicated Seward and his $7.2 million investment. But a paper by . . . . Continue Reading »

According to a new report by Gallup , Missipians, Mormons, and African Americans are the most frequent churchgoers in the nation: Well over half of all residents in a number of Southern states and Utah report attending religious services weekly or almost every week, compared to below a third who . . . . Continue Reading »

According to the Charlotte Observer , a Duke University study analyzed data from 22,000 online daters and found that when women choose which men to contact there was a correlation between height and income: “[T]he study showed a 5-foot-9-inch man needs to make $30,000 more than a . . . . Continue Reading »

Since it’s the first day of Lent I thought it would be appropriate to highlight this stirring poem by Marjorie Maddox from the February 1996 issue of First Things . Ash Wednesda y Marjorie Maddox Fingernails scrubbed clean as latrines in the army, this symbol of a man dirties his thumb with . . . . Continue Reading »

At Wal-Mart’s 2005 annual meeting, Lee Scott, the company’s CEO, announced that since the they wanted to attract customers with lots of discretionary income they would be including more items like organic foods. If you have a difficult time with the concept of Wal-Mart customers having . . . . Continue Reading »

After reading Wesley’s post about the Penn biologist that that human free will is fiction, my first thought was, “Maybe Dr. Cashmore is a zombie.” It’s not as bizarre an assumption as you might think (actually it is as bizarre, just not in the way you imagine). The zombies . . . . Continue Reading »