Kim Davis may not have a legal leg to stand on (see here, and here). But I think some Christians are moving too quickly to critique her situation on a purely legal basis. We are Christians first, before we are Americans. So before we start talking about whether this is a good religious liberty . . . . Continue Reading »
I just finished Malcolm Muggeridge's Chronicles of Wasted Time, an autobiographical tour de force. Muggeridge was born into a democratic socialist family and married the niece of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Leftist royalty in early twentieth-century England.
Donald Trump, Traitor to his Class
Ross Douthat, New York Times
Oldest Fragment of Koran May Pre-Date Prophet Mohammed
Abraham Rabinovich, Washington Free Beacon
Crime and Punishment
Sean Curnyn, The Cinch Review
‘Saving Place' at the Museum of the City of New York
Benjamin Riley, The New Criterion
Every Tax Policy Proposal from the 2016 Presidential Candidates, in One Chart
Scott Greenberg, Tax Foundation
Churches need to show, not simply claim, that they take marriage and fidelity seriously. Continue Reading »
Law, Naturally
Jonah C. P. Goldberg, New Rambler
The Social Injustice Done to Adjunct Faculty: A Call to Arms
Randall Smith, Public Discourse
American Muslims Defending True Islam
Murad Kalam, Patheos
A Millenial's Guide to Kissing
Emma Court, New York Times
Wes Craven's Nightmare Faith
Matthew Schmitz, Acculturated
At the Liberty Law site, my friend John McGinnis has a very interesting post on what he calls America’s “scribal class.” These are people—professors, journalists, opinion writers, lawyers, even entertainment industry types—who set America’s cultural and political agendas. John writes . . . . Continue Reading »
The Donald Trump phenomenon continues, and so does the commentary upon it. In the Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens termed the latter “a parade of semi-sophisticated theories that act as bathroom deodorizer to mask the stench of this candidacy.” Rusty Reno took note of Stephens’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Sabbath
Oliver Sacks (RIP), New York Times
Amazon and the Limits of Consent
Charlie Clark, Fare Forward
Trumpism the Ideology
Jeffrey A. Tucker, Foundation for Economic Education
The Drama of St. Crispian's Day: Shakespeare Got It Right
Allan Massie, The Spectator
Virgin Mary Statue Crying for No Good Reason
Staff, The Onion
Eve Tushnet's new novel Amends is about how love is better than sheer moral achievement and how, often, we have to journey through humiliation in order to get it. Continue Reading »
The Fondazione Marcianum, a research center in Venice, will hold its second annual international law-and-religion moot court competition this coming March. The competition, which gathers law students from universities around the world, is the only one of its kind: a truly international competition . . . . Continue Reading »
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