Matthew J. Franck

While much of our attention (well, mine anyway) is focused on the question whether same-sex marriage will be foisted on the American people by judicial ideologues, the T in LGBT (lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgendered) continues to pop up in the news in odd and disturbing ways.  This morning . . . . Continue Reading »

A couple of months ago, Inside Higher Ed published an article by Joshua Wolff making a passionate case that many Christian colleges, in adhering to the traditions of faith and Scripture on sexual morality, do harm to their homosexual students.  Wolff concluded that “accrediting bodies . . . . Continue Reading »

You may already have seen it, but if not, have a look at this New York Times article from last weekend, ” Debate Over Intelligent Design Ensnares a Journal .”  It’s a sordid tale of sneering and prejudice, dressed up in the costume of academic philosophy—and of the good . . . . Continue Reading »

At Public Discourse this week, Timothy Shah, Daniel Philpott, and Monica Toft offer a three-part summary of the findings and arguments in their new book God’s Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics .  In Monday’s installment, ” God and Political Science ,” they . . . . Continue Reading »

In the contemporary debate on the future of marriage, there appears to be, amid many uncertainties, one sure thing. Those who publicly defend traditional marriage can count on being denounced as haters, bigots, or irrational theocrats—and perhaps all of these at once. So I learned after publishing . . . . Continue Reading »

Not to seem like I’m picking on Joe, but I’ll point out a few things in connection with his post below on whether waterboarding “worked” and helped us find Osama bin Laden. 1. Michael Mukasey, former attorney general, has said that John McCain is wrong about the efficacy of . . . . Continue Reading »

Joe, whatever the case might be for punctuating as the British do , the explanation for the ubiquity of the British style on the internet is surely not the necessities of correct computer coding .  How many ordinary bloggers have ever written a line of code in their lives?  As for Ben . . . . Continue Reading »

So ever since First Things posted the May issue online and the commenters (commentators?) got busy, David Bentley Hart’s uproarious takedown of Ayn Rand has led in the generation-of-comments category.  For days on end I despaired of my article ” Religion, Reason, and Same-Sex . . . . Continue Reading »

Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths: The Touchstone of the Natural Law by hadley arkes cambridge, 280 pages, $25.99 Most readers of this review will need no introduction to Hadley Arkes, who once wrote a book called First Things and has long been a contributor to this magazine and a . . . . Continue Reading »