Environmentalism has taken on a distinctly anti human hue in recent years—which is why I got interested in discussing it here. Latest example: We are supposedly calling a mass extinction event. From the story:Mankind may have unleashed the sixth known mass extinction in . . . . Continue Reading »
This morning Joe noticed Jordan’s excellent response to the new manifesto from some evangelicals who desperately want to be (or be seen to be) relevant to the debate about government spending and debt. Among the document’s many failings, there’s one in particular I want to call . . . . Continue Reading »
The credibility of the global warming meme continues to sink. We are often told by alarmist apologists that we rubes irrationally refuse to believe the “settled scientific fact ” of AGW. But that is reductionist because there is much more to the issue than whether the earth . . . . Continue Reading »
As usual, the nineteenth century saw this coming. Tocqueville and Nietzsche, among many others, long ago predicted that an advanced democratic culture would entail a flattening of the spiritual landscape, discouraging the development of truly outstanding individuals who are willing and able to . . . . Continue Reading »
Gay-rights activists scored a coup by injecting the language of “homophobia” into our national conversation. They may regret it, though. It’s poised to come back and bite them.From one perspective, “homophobia” is a truly marvelous term, as strategic as it could . . . . Continue Reading »
The subject of Monday’s The Catholic Brand, the Real Gospel , the minister recently let go by a Catholic college after they discovered, they said, that he was both openly homosexual and a minister in a pseudo-Catholic group called the Old Catholic Apostolic Church of America, has, . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things is opening up our website’s archives in order to ensure full access to our subscribers during a period of transition to what we believe will be a more reliable system. For the next month, all readers will be able to access every issue of the print edition without needing to log . . . . Continue Reading »
Just as historic popular uprisings have swept across the Middle East and North Africa, a similar, if less violent, wave of discontent has engulfed the state of Wisconsin, where Republican Governor Scott Walker has moved to rein in public spending by trimming public employee benefits and removing . . . . Continue Reading »
Catholic writer Russell Shaw says American Catholics ought to recreate the Catholic ghetto : One of the worst mistakes American Catholicism ever made was the scrapping in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s of the subculture that had served it well up to that time. That was the era of the great flight from . . . . Continue Reading »
A number of influential evangelical leaders have issued a statement on the budget fights in the federal government. The group includes a few men that I greatly respect—including Gideon Strauss, Ron Sider, and Richard Mouw—and I appreciate their willingness to address this concern from a . . . . Continue Reading »
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