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Andrew Breitbart launched his new site today, BigGovernment , with an undercover invesigation of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Officials with the controversial community organizing group were videotaped telling two journalists—who were passing themselves off as . . . . Continue Reading »

A British tribunal has ruled that employers must treat strongly held views on climate change practices the same as they would religious beliefs : Senior executive Tim Nicholson claimed he was unfairly dismissed by a property investment company because his views on the environment conflicted with . . . . Continue Reading »

First Things contributing writer Yuval Levin has just launched the new public policy journal  National Affairs . The new quarterly, which picks up the banner from the sorely missed The Public Interest, focuses on domestic policy and political economy. Only a few days old, the fledgling journal . . . . Continue Reading »

American’s United for Life has compiled answers to some questions pro-life advocates may have about the current health reform proposals making their way through Congress. What do the health care reform plans currently in Congress say about the unborn? You say the plans would mandate abortion . . . . Continue Reading »

The reaction to President Obama’s speech to America’s schoolchildren has sparked a bizarre level of concern. Parental outrage over the address seems to be inversely proportional to the actual threat that his banal speech will produce socialist automatons. Perhaps conservative Americans . . . . Continue Reading »

The latest inhumane treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay is so excruciatingly torturous that it would make even Dick Cheney squirm: Detainees are being forced to read Barack Obama’s Dreams of My Father ! Okay, that’s not exactly true. Unlike American schoolchildren, the prisoners are . . . . Continue Reading »

C-Span2 has a fascinating video interview with George Weigel , Catholic theologian and First Things board member. Weigel is the author of over a dozen books, including Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II . In the revealing interview, Weigel shares his preferred Bible translation . . . . Continue Reading »

Last Thursday at Wheaton, two members of the First Things family, board member Timothy George and contributor Francis Beckwith, debated the question, “ Can you be Catholic and Evangelical? ” A video of the debate can be found here . (Update: Broken link is now fixed) In “ . . . . Continue Reading »

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair recently spoke at Communion and Liberation’s annual meeting in Rimini: Faith enlarges and enriches the idea of community. The recent Papal Encyclical is a remarkable document in many respects. It repays reading and re-reading. But one strand throughout it, . . . . Continue Reading »

Derek Silvers shares a fascinating talk given by Kurt Vonnegut in which the novelist explains why people have such a need for drama in their life . [Vonnegut] said, “People have been hearing fantastic stories since time began. The problem is, they think life is supposed to be like the stories. . . . . Continue Reading »