The New York Times is a fascinating newspaper for the study of bias. Yes, of course we all have our biases and blind spots, and every publication has a point of view, but there is something about the Times ’ style and tone that suggest a loftier than usual view of their own objectivity and . . . . Continue Reading »
Does music shape not only our souls but the laws of a nation? Roger Scruton believes so : We know of music that is good-humoured, lascivious, gentle, bold, chaste, self-indulgent, sentimental, reserved, and generous: and all those words describe moral virtues and vices, which we are as little . . . . Continue Reading »
For the sake of balance, there are good reasons why Catholics become evangelicals. Books & Culture’s “book notes” features a post by Mark Noll about a book written by Chris Castaldo who is on the staff of College Church in Wheaton. He writes,Yet as a former Catholic who . . . . Continue Reading »
For now, I think the fever is banking, and global warming hysteria is abating. This is not to say, of course, that the scientific debate over global warming is settled. To the contrary: With skeptics finally having a voice in the argument, it will grow even more intense. But that . . . . Continue Reading »
What reality? Evolution—should the data become “overwhelmingly in favor.” So says Professor Bruce Waltke, professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Reformed Theological Seminary, in a video from the BioLogos Foundation, posted by Chaplain Mike at the Internet Monk blog.Given the . . . . Continue Reading »
And then there were 32. After a brutal round of upsets, blowouts, and close calls we have narrowed our list of 64 in half. [caption id=”attachment_14086” align=”alignright” width=”150” caption=”Click to Download Round 2 Brackets”] [/caption] . . . . Continue Reading »
The Obamalyptic mood in the White House seems to have infected the cultural left generally. Thirty-year-old news is dragged daily into the headlines to make it appear that some dreadful truth has been dragged out of the Vatican vaults, demonstrating Pope Benedict XVI’s culpability in child . . . . Continue Reading »
I profiled Barack Obama on Feb. 26, 2008 in Asia Times Online. This essay caused more revulsion and anguish than all the rest of my “Spengler” writings put together. I stand by every word, and believe that subsequent events validate the analysis. Obama is a Third World anthropologist . . . . Continue Reading »
There is an Obamalyptic tone at the White House. The president put the all the chips he owned in domestic politics on the table for a health care bill opposed by more than 60% of polled voters, and now he has thrown all his foreign policy chips into the pot in order to humiliate a close American . . . . Continue Reading »
Of interest to some of you: the Patterson Triennial Conference for the Orthodox-Roman Catholic Dialogue, titled Orthodox Constructions of the West . It is being held at Fordham University in the Bronx from June 28th to 30th. The first conference was held in 2007, and the papers are being published . . . . Continue Reading »
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