Here’s Steven Menashi in Forbes on IK as moral critic. Here’s David Brooks giving IK three full cheers. Here’s me locating IK mostly in the American mainstream — today, even! — with Mark Schmitt in the opposite corner at Bloggingheads. I say a little more about . . . . Continue Reading »
With the emergence of Jedi as an organized religion, I can’t help wondering whether good old saints’ names, already sorely besieged by Madison, Ava, Parker and Holden, are going to find even more competition in an entirely new breed of religiously-inspired names. If the lunch-table . . . . Continue Reading »
The air of superiority in among the global warming hysterics tells me, at least, that we should not follow them into the potentially anti-human, unprosperous, and far less free future into which they wish to take us. Latest example, our own Secretary of Energy, who has called us . . . . Continue Reading »
The Columbia Journalism Review claims that after years of openness that benefited both the military and the media in Iraq, the media is being shut out . The article is extraordinary not just for what it says but most importantly for what it refuses to say. The blame for the media blackout is placed . . . . Continue Reading »
A collection of odd economic indicators from the BBC and the L.A. Times :The crane index. How many cranes are visible from a given point. Really a measure of optimism about the prospects for commercial property. • The number of people signing up to dating agencies offering extra-marital . . . . Continue Reading »
Ivan Kenneally, an assistant professor political science at the Rochester Institute of Technology and blogger at Postmodern Conservative , reviews Remi Brague’s The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea for Modern Age : In The Law of God, Brague never specifically mentions American . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember when everyone was saying that the Cash for Clunkers program was merely siphoning off demand from future months? Turns out that’s exactly what’s happening : Edmunds.com reports that “September’s light-vehicle sales rate will fall to 8.8 million units . . . the lowest . . . . Continue Reading »
Daniel Pipes, the brilliant and tenacious analyst of Middle East strategy, has just published an important essay, “Peace Process or War Process?” In good Clausewitzian terms, Pipes argues that peace will come to the Middle East only through victory. The Palestinians first must feel . . . . Continue Reading »
Like so many people, I would not be where I am today without Irving Kristol. When people called him the “Godfather of neoconservatism,” they meant the term affectionately. Irving touched the lives of more people in his position as talent-spotter-in-chief and dispenser of seed money . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ll return to our regularly-scheduled examination of the material culture of religion following this random current-events roundup: British Couple Charged in Religious Discussion. “Is God Dead?” Author Indisputably Dead Archaeologists Unearth Oldest Christian ChurchPrayer . . . . Continue Reading »
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