Keith Pavlischek

Commenting on the threat to prosecute CIA interrogators and Bush Administration officials for “torture,” Marty Peretz of the New Republic says ” I Don’t Lose Sleep Over Terrorists Being Walled .” Peretz thinks there are too “many Democrats who want to keep George . . . . Continue Reading »

From the beginning of creation to the present, the indisputably greatest banjo player was the great Earl Scruggs. From Earl’s prime to today the indisputably greatest is Bela Fleck. The banjo, of course, is a staple of American bluegrass and folk music, but it probably has its roots in West . . . . Continue Reading »

My old friend Frank Beckwith has just called my attention to this announcement at his Return to Rome website. The Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture is sponsoring a lecture tonight by the Wall Street Journal ’s Bill  McGurn. McGurn is a Notre Dame alumnus (1980) and a former chief . . . . Continue Reading »

Something to really worry about. Today’s front page headline in the Washington Post reads, “Extremist Tide Rises in Pakistan .” A potentially troubling era dawned Sunday in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, where a top Islamist militant leader, emboldened by a peace agreement with the . . . . Continue Reading »

In the unlikely event you haven’t heard about the most recent controversy at Georgetown University: Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram “IHS”—symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ—because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where President Obama . . . . Continue Reading »

For the award granted to the commentator constructing the greatest number of strawmen in the smallest amount of space, I hereby nominate E.J. Dionne and his op-ed  ” The Obama Doctrine ” in this morning’s Washington Post . Dionne is so anxious to prove that President . . . . Continue Reading »

On March 3, 2009, Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) introduced legislation (H.R. 1283) to repeal the 1993 law regarding homosexuals in the military (Section 654, Title 10, U.S.C.), often labeled “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”   Anticipating an attempt to repeal this law, several retired . . . . Continue Reading »

Francis Beckwith’s comments on the death of porn star Marylyn Chambers: This morning I was greeted by a headline that the porn star, Marilyn Chambers (56), was found dead on Easter Sunday. Her obituary was written as if she had actually accomplished something. She was, of course, in her own . . . . Continue Reading »

Hats off to David Hoekema for having the courage to enter the lion’s den of the American Philosophical Association (APA).    Hoekema is a Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College. As I discussed here and here , Calvin College is one among several evangelical universities and . . . . Continue Reading »

Nathan Diament, the director of public policy for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America has called the tension between gay rights and religious liberty “the mega-cultural issue of the decade.” That may well be an understatement, so it’s nice to see that the problem is . . . . Continue Reading »