Perspectives On Political Science

by James Poulos

Some good ones are to be found in the latest issue of Perspectives on Political Science. . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Jan 2010 0

Locke and Education

by Ivan Kenneally

More me thinking about the state of education in America through the historical and theoretical sources of our present discontent: The central object of Lockean education, the rational control of nature, begins with the defective natural constitution that originally plagues all children, . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Jan 2010 0

Thanks, But I Think I’ll Stay Attorney General

by Joseph Bottum

Have you noticed that all the Democratic attorneys general who’ve announced they are not running for Congress this year? The latest: Beau Biden in Delaware. You know it’s a bad year for a party when a state attorney general isn’t trying to get a better job. . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Jan 2010 0

Global Warming Hysteria: Evidence of Cooked Books

by Wesley J. Smith

I’ve been trying to not post about global warming today, but it has been hard.  Over the last several months, the entire facade of the “scientific consensus” has been exposed as more about politics than science. And in the wake of NASA’s claim that the last decade was . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Jan 2010 0

Citizens United v. FEC and Christian Liberty

by Collin Brendemuehl

It was and is a game changer. Citizens United v. FEC has changed, or should we rather say, re-established the ground rules. A corporation, whether it is non-profit or a for-profit, can speak against issues and the candidates who hold those positions.(a) Although the First Amendment provides that . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Jan 2010 0

Global Warming Hysteria: Americans Refuse to be Panicked

by Wesley J. Smith

I knew that global warming hysteria had badly infected Europe several years ago. Secondhand Smokette and I sojourned in France and countries Nordic. We met a friend who is a diplomat for a European country.  He really hated President Bush, surprisingly, not because of Iraq—he thought we . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Jan 2010 0

Sempiternal Snacking

by Joe Carter

In the New York Times , Jennifer Steinhauer observes that “ Snack Time Never Ends “: Not a month goes by without someone somewhere asking me to serve up some snack for an event that one of my children will attend and that, generally speaking, will not last more than 90 minutes . . . . . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Jan 2010 0

Calvinists and Cistercians Together

by Joe Carter

NRO ‘s Mike Potemra discovers that new elected Senator Scott Brown is quirkily ecumenical : Brown is a member of a church affiliated with the Calvinist-rooted Christian Reformed Church in North America. If you go on the website of his congregation, New England Chapel in Franklin, Mass., you . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Jan 2010 0

Academic responsibility

by David T. Koyzis

During my first years teaching at Redeemer University College, I quickly discovered the impact I was having on students and initially found it a somewhat jarring experience.  I had recently gone from being a lowly graduate student at Notre Dame’s Department of Government and International . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Jan 2010 0

Climate Science as a Game of Telephone (Part II)

by Joe Carter

Last Monday I wrote about how a key claim in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report resembled a game of telephone rather than on carefully scrutinized research . Now another apocalyptic statement in the report turns out to be based on a report that was not even published, much . . . . Continue Reading »

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