Yes, it’s the law—for now. But most Americans oppose it. The Republicans are running on repealing it. The democrats are running away from it. Obamacare is on the rocks and may yet die a’borning.Don’t take my word for it. None other than an editorial in the . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been made aware of so much perversion in our fallen world, so much that is sick and twisted, that I thought nothing else could shock me. Then someone goes and puts broccoli in a cupcake . I don’t think I know any culinary sociopaths, but just in case I’ll say this: If you . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Liccione explains the Gnostic Impulse . It is, he writes, “cosmic cynicism . . . the attitude which naturally springs up when we disbelieve that the ‘cosmos,’ that vast, more-or-less ordered whole we experience, is the product of a Love and a Reason that are one.” . . . . Continue Reading »
A story in The Hill—one of the main newspapers serving the U.S. Capital—once again shows how unpopular Obamacare is in the country. The polling covered districts that are closely contested in the coming election. The result? The call to repeal Obamacare is very popular . . . . Continue Reading »
Thar’s gold in them thar embryos! As a consequence, as I have repeatedly written about, a great drive is afoot to redefine the term and reduce the status of these earliest human beings so that they can be used instrumentally with impunity. Perhaps toward this end, California . . . . Continue Reading »
Rabbi Ari Shvat’s ruling—which appeared in the marvelously-titled study, “Illicit sex for the sake of national security”—says that its okay for female agents of Israel’s foreign secret service, Mossad, to have sex with the enemy in so-called “honey-pot” . . . . Continue Reading »
The Christian Century asked eight theologians to name the five Essential theology books of the past 25 years . Stanley Hauerwas will be the theologian most familiar to First Things readers, and he chose: George A. Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age . . . . Continue Reading »
Now up on “On the Square”: A tribute to Michael Novak , who is among many other things our long-time board member and writer. Writing on what he calls “the total Novak phenomenon,” Christopher DeMuth praises Novak’s industrious, audacity, courage, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Sometimes the New York Times is like breakfast cereal: You’re pouring yourself some boring, high-fiber, colon-cleansing all-bran and then . . . a plastic secret decoder ring plops into your bowl. You have no idea how it sneaked out of the box of Super Sugar Surge and got mixed in with your . . . . Continue Reading »
Jordan Ballor points out a trend that I too have noticed over the past few years: Some years ago Robert Benne wrote an essay in First Things called “The Neo-Augustinian Temptation,” which he describes as a movement “committed to the construction of an independent and distinct . . . . Continue Reading »
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