Over at National Review , Kevin D. Williamson has a nice posting writes about William Saletan’s latest piece in Slate : Beyond the non-obvious argument that Bush’s “fatal flaw” was that he was too much of an abstract thinker (!), Saletan here is, forgive the hackneyed . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been heartened by the response to FT’s fundraiser to help defray its costs to host the many First Things blogs. It is doing so in a manner that offers real value for the buck. If you go to this link, you can subscribe to First Things magazine for only $19.95 a year. . . . . Continue Reading »
Because it is fashionable to be late and lists are fun, let’s think about the books that most influenced our early intellectual formation. Not too long ago, some writers on my reading list presented their contributions: Ross Douthat, Tyler Cowen, Austin Bramwell, Daniel McCarthy, Thursday. . . . . Continue Reading »
If transcendence is the mark of religious feeling, midtown Manhattan’s St. Francis of Assisi Church triumphs. On first glance the interior seems gaudy, if not kitsch: There are gilt-trimmed columns, and an elaborate pastel fresco towering above a marble wall backdrops the altar. But on . . . . Continue Reading »
As I said few months ago, when it comes to the issue of whether waterboarding is torture I trust experts like former Navy SEAL and SERE instructor Malcolmn Nance over speechwriters like Marc Thiessen. Now Nance is offering to help make Theissen an expert on the topic : I spent twenty years in . . . . Continue Reading »
How do you get people to pay for something they can get for free? That’s the question that worries me during our fundraising drive . Obviously, I don’t have the answer. Because, to be perfectly honest, if I did I wouldn’t be working here: I’d be getting rich working for some . . . . Continue Reading »
Like the vast majority of southern kids during the 1970?s and 80?s, I went to church from time to time. My parents took us to an Episcopal church for several years and then sporadically attended Baptist churches after that. For the most part, I was bored. The one outlier was a Sunday school class in . . . . Continue Reading »
Is it true, as James Davison Hunter, claims in his new book, that the dominant public witness of the Christian churches in America since the early 1980s has been a political witness? Doug Wilson says, yes, it’s true . . . but : Think about this for a moment. The “most dominant public . . . . Continue Reading »
I was just interviewed by a high school student about how I became involved in anti assisted suicide activism. It’s a painful story. I was very happily co-authoring books with Ralph Nader, who had been my hero as a teenager. I couldn’t believe my good fortune to be both . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the wonderful moments in St. Augustine’s Confessions returned to me in force from out of the blue. Now, I’ve not been a Christian for long in my adult life, having been raised within the fold of the Church, but having fallen away for 20 years of my adult life until fairly . . . . Continue Reading »
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