In the new biography American Cicero , Bradley J. Birzer examines the life of an American founding father he calls “an exemplar of Catholic and Republican virtue.” (And, in the title of the first chapter, a “liberally-educated bastard.”) Birzer, who holds the Russell Kirk chair . . . . Continue Reading »
I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern . . . . Continue Reading »
A few years ago, Joseph Bottum lamented the loss of the swallows at Mission San Juan Capistrano , comparing the loss of the swallows to the loss of a vibrant—if quirky—Catholic Culture: There’s a figure in all this—a metaphor, perhaps, or a synecdoche—for the condition of . . . . Continue Reading »
The front page of today’s Wall Street Journal features a photograph of a sergeant handing a wounded comrade a cigarette while reading Psalm 91 to him. It’s a classic picture, in fact a wonderful picture. Here is the psalm this young man asked to hear, in the King James Version: He that . . . . Continue Reading »
The folks at lifesitenews.com report that David Coppedge is litigating against NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab for harassment and threats of termination. His offense: talking to co-workers about Intelligent Design. I’m not a big fan of the ID arguments, and it seems that Mr. . . . . Continue Reading »
Only a direct quotation from the article could possibly explain: Women in Saudi Arabia should give their breast milk to male colleagues and acquaintances in order to avoid breaking strict Islamic law forbidding mixing between the sexes, two powerful Saudi clerics have said. They are at odds, . . . . Continue Reading »
In the wake of the BP catastrophe it was predictable that some on the Left would leap on board the ecocide campaign to destroy prosperity. As I described more fully in the Weekly Standard, ecocide is a proposed new international “crime against peace” deemed equal in severity to . . . . Continue Reading »
The secularist criticism of Christianity and of religious belief in general is one of continuing interest to our readers, judging from the discussions just of two recent “On the Square” articles, David B. Hart’s The Perniciously Persistent Myths of Hypatia and the Great Library . . . . Continue Reading »
I recently complained about the ludicrous push to induce President Obama to release his inner rage to show he “cares.” It worked, as he has now said the A-word on TV. (Sigh.) Here’s how they did . . . . Continue Reading »
Last month I received the latest issue of PMLA (the Publication of the Modern Language Association) that included a lead article with the title, “Queer Ecology.” Why I’m still a member, I’m not sure. What is queer ecology? Well, it’s the latest literary theory that . . . . Continue Reading »
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