Peter’s review of Avatar is a must-read: Avatar isn’t much a movie: Instead, Cameron’s cooked up a derivative, overlong pastiche of anti-corporate clichés and quasi-mystical eco-nonsense. It’s not that the film’s politics make it bad, it’s that . . . . Continue Reading »
I can’t think of a more foolish attitude I harbor at times than when I look back on previous generations and assume they were ignorant, unenlightened, unaware and totally outside of what I’m thinking and experiencing today. I was reminded of something the British writer G.K. Chesterton . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s right: Men. Not “Let us our songs employ,” or “Let all their songs employ,” but men.That’s how Isaac Watts wrote it back in the eighteenth century, when he wrote Joy to the World.This line gets changed from “men” to “us” or . . . . Continue Reading »
As the Obama Administration pretends that Copenhagen was a major breakthrough, the hysterics are furious at their failure to gain control of the world’s economies and governance. From the story:Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauven said: “The city of Copenhagen is a crime . . . . Continue Reading »
My pal Nat Hentoff—a self-described “Jewish, atheist, civil libertarian, pro lifer”—gave an interview to the Rutherford Institute. Nat has been around a long time—he was close with the Beat Poets, for example—and as the interviewer states, because he sticks . . . . Continue Reading »
Start listening to this holiday radio program here.The pace quickens as the Brownies try to save a radical school and its lonely headmistress from Christmas hatred and bring liberty instead of mere equality . . . and the Anti-Brownie arrives to spoil it all.Episode 10The Anti-Brownie arrives . . . . Continue Reading »
I just watched President Obama on television. There will be no binding agreement coming out of Copenhagen, meaning that the conference failed. That’s to be celebrated, not because of anything personal, but because no deal is good for the country and good for the world. More details and . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest issue of Intelligent Life , the quarterly lifestyle and culture magazine from The Economist , Anthony Gottlieb claims that religious believers face a stumbling block in a sixty-five year old horticulture parable : In 1944 John Wisdom, an aptly named British philosopher, wrote a . . . . Continue Reading »
I hope everyone will tune in to hear this on Sunday. I have been a member of Rabbi Wechsler’s congregation, Or Zarua, for nearly ten years, and have enormous regard for his scholarship and wisdom. And I had the privilege to meet Archbishop Dolan at the board meeting of the Institute for . . . . Continue Reading »
David Klinghoffer wonders what God had in mind bringing the Christian faith into the world: I happened to overhear recently when a friend of mine asked the poised young wife of a Chabad rabbi if her family celebrates Thanksgiving. In general, ultra-Orthodox Jews shy away from marking non-Jewish . . . . Continue Reading »
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