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David Nilsen on the resurgent interest in John Calvin : No one in the history of the church has been so equally reviled and adored by so many as John Calvin. Some of the greatest pastors, theologians and missionaries in both Great Britain and America have considered themselves Calvinists. And yet . . . . Continue Reading »

An intriguing claim that I think has a lot of merit: The historical debate about the genealogy of modern atheism continues amongst historians and theologians, blaming various figures such as Duns Scotus, Francisco Saurez, the deists, René Descartes, and many others. I don’t doubt that . . . . Continue Reading »

“We live in a society that wouldn’t dare pass judgment on even deviant sexual practices, but we can’t let women make their own decisions on how to diaper their children.” — Mollie Ziegler Hemingway in ” White Flag in the Mommy Wars .” . . . . Continue Reading »

Economist Bryan Caplan sets out to prove that basic economics is intuitive : To make my prima facie case, I’m going to present a few allegedly counterintuitive economic propositions, then explain them at a 6th-grade level. 1. Counterintuitive claim: Free trade makes countries richer, even if . . . . Continue Reading »

Kyle Smith, film critic for The New York Post , notes that the new Ricky Gervais comedy isn’t what it seems: If you saw Ricky Gervais’s delightful romantic comedy “Ghost Town” last year and were looking forward to his new comedy, “The Invention of Lying,” be warned. . . . . Continue Reading »

On the campaign trail Barack Obama said that one of his heroes was Abraham Lincoln. Now that he is President, #44 seems to have forgotten the lessons of #16. Lincoln took the role of Commander-in-Chief extremely seriously, often directly supervising his generals during the war. Obama, on the other . . . . Continue Reading »

In response to Michael Moore’s new documentary,  Capitalism: A Love Story, the Acton Institute has produced a four-minute video rebuttal that makes the case that it was government meddling with the free market—not free markets—that led to the current financial crisis. . . . . Continue Reading »

Kate Harding at Salon.com should get the last word on the Roman Polanski affair—for she says everything that needs to be said . . . . . Continue Reading »

From William Easterly’s paper, ” Can the West Save Africa? ” [PDF] Most of the emphasis in project-specific efforts has been in addressing problems of illiteracy, disease, low agricultural productivity (possibly linked to land tenure practices, to be discussed more in the . . . . Continue Reading »

William Safire, the inimitable wordsmith and pundit, died yesterday at the age of seventy-nine . To younger generations, Safire is most well-known for the three decades’ worth of columns he wrote for the New York Times . But before he was a columnist, he was a speechwriter for the Nixon . . . . Continue Reading »