Joe Carter

Quote of the day: I have very little patience for the school of thought that says that everything boils down to class warfare. But if I absolutely must pick a class — because some folks insist on it — I’ll pick the one that isn’t looting people’s shops and houses, . . . . Continue Reading »

Jacob Sullum, senior editor at Reason , takes Rick Perry to task for wanting to amend the U.S. Constitution : It soon became clear that Perry, who wrote a book championing federalism, does not really believe in the 10th Amendment. In a July 28 interview, he assured Tony Perkins, president of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Contraception and Healthcare Rights Public Discourse , Christopher O. Tollefsen Mormonism and Mitt Romney’s “Weirdness” New York Times , Ross Douthat New York City Will Mandate Sex Education New York Times , Fernanda Santos Life in Prison For Polygamist Leader Jeffs Associated Press . . . . Continue Reading »

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Discover Magazine profiles John Polkinghorne, Anglican priest and mathematical physicist: When he describes his line of work, John Polkinghorne jests, he encounters “more suspicion than a vegetarian butcher.” For the particle physicist turned Anglican priest, dissonance comes with the . . . . Continue Reading »

Sara Lippincott, who worked in the New Yorker’s famed fact-checking department from 1966 until 1982, once told a class of journalism students that, “Each word in the piece that has even a shred of fact clinging to it is scrutinized, and, if passed, given the checker’s imprimatur, which consists of a tiny pencil tick.” Such excruciating attention to detail is rare nowadays”even at the New Yorker. The publication should have brought Ms. Lippincott in from retirement for Ryan Lizza’s recent article Leap of Faith… . Continue Reading »

Alan Jacobs scores a point against the blogosphere’s most revered Christian-basher: Andrew Sullivan writes in his usual vein about “Christianism”: Imagine a libertarian Christianity, which urged individuals to give away as much of their property as possible to the poor, to forget . . . . Continue Reading »

A few weeks ago I explained in OTS column how Lawrence v Texas will inevitably be used to justify polygamy. Today I discovered a recent editorial from the LA Times that admits, yeah, it probably will : Kennedy emphasized in Lawrence that same-sex marriage wasn’t before the court. Similarly, . . . . Continue Reading »

Thomson’s “Defense of Abortion” at Forty The Catholic Thing , Francis J. Beckwith Behold the Mighty Beard, a Badge of Piety and Religious Belonging New York Times , Mark Oppenheimer Mark O. Hatfield Dies At 89 Los Angeles Times, Kim Murphy Rioting Widens in London And Spreads . . . . Continue Reading »

Ralph Richard Banks on the the most unmarried group of people in America : Nearly 70% of black women are unmarried, and the racial gap in marriage spans the socioeconomic spectrum, from the urban poor to well-off suburban professionals. Three in 10 college-educated black women haven’t married . . . . Continue Reading »