Long before I read his memoir , the first thing I ever knew about the actor Sterling Hayden was what my father told me when we watched Dr. Strangelove — that the man who played the screw-loose Commie-hating General Ripper had once been a Communist himself, had named names to HUAC, and . . . . Continue Reading »
At Books and Culture, Christopher Benson reviews Darryl Hart’s latest book, From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism : Focusing on the evangelical intelligentsia rather than the rank-and-file, he considers “the reasons . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote here a few weeks ago about the European Union’s highest court ruling that products made from embryonic stem cell research cannot be patented. First Things asked me to do a longer article, which appears today in The Public Square. I start by explaining that . . . . Continue Reading »
According to a new Gallup survey , the majority of Democrats remain less likely to attend church weekly and more likely to seldom or never attend church than the national average. . . . . Continue Reading »
In her latest On the Square column , Elizabeth Scalia confronts the idol of American optimism: There are probably ten thousand articles to be found on the Internet all fleshing out their theories of what is behind America’s swift collapse. Curiously, most of them will touch—all without . . . . Continue Reading »
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput on defending human dignity Here’s my first point. We remember Bonhoeffer, Solzhenitsyn, and other men and women like them because of their moral witness. But the whole idea of “moral witness” comes from the assumption that good and evil are real, and that . . . . Continue Reading »
U.K.: Government to save Year of our Lord from BBC’s ‘Common Era’ Daily Mail , Chris Hastings In Tebow Debate, a Clash of Faith and Football New York Times , Greg Bishop Myths of the Bin Laden Raid Daily Beast , Richard Miniter How Old Is ‘Too Old’ for Fatherhood? . . . . Continue Reading »
In the November issue of First Things , Abdullah Saeed explains why a close reading of the Qur’an and the Prophet leads to supporting religious tolerance : The words of the Qur’an and hadith contain rich resources for supporting the democratic order. If Muslims are to embrace modernity, . . . . Continue Reading »
As Muslims gather to undertake the hajj pilgrimage, the city of Mecca itself is experiencing a major transformation which seems to mirror larger upheavals in the Islamic world. A massive hotel complex featuring the world’s second tallest building has opened literally across the . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl Truman on Martin Luther’s forgotten insight : At the heart of this new theology was the notion that God reveals himself under his opposite; or, to express this another way, God achieves his intended purposes by doing the exact opposite of that which humans might expect. The supreme . . . . Continue Reading »
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