Boy Scout national headquarters in Philadelphia. It was an ugly scene in Irving, Texas, when the Boy Scout decided on Wednesday to delay a vote on whether to end the policy of prohibiting openly gay leaders. From today’s Wall Street Journal : “In a Web conference with Scouts leaders on . . . . Continue Reading »
A Patron Saint for the Idiot Box Stephen Masty, Imaginative Conservative Christianity: The First Thousand Years Peter J. Leithart, Gospel Coalition Racing to Save Aramaic Ariel Sabar, Smithsonian Does the Economy Need Supersized Megabanks? James Pethokoukis, AEI How I Came . . . . Continue Reading »
“It’s getting pretty noisy in here with all of our ‘national conversations,’” writes Carlos Lozada in the Washington Post . The president loves to call for them, but so do figures from all corners of our public life, like Newt Gingrich and Bill Bennett. And . . . . Continue Reading »
Leon Kass , that is, who worked for a month in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in 1964. Here’s what we learn: Some communities do need to be organized, although the key organization has to come from within. The situation of the African American in Mississippi really was in some ways . . . . Continue Reading »
Justin Dyer on the legacy of Baker v. Nelson : In a pair of high-profile cases scheduled for oral argument in March, the Supreme Court of the United States will weigh in on the current political and legal debate about same-sex marriage. As novel as it all seems, the issue of same-sex marriage first . . . . Continue Reading »
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor delivered a speech yesterday at the American Enterprise Institute. There’s much to like in it, but I’m going to focus on what he has to say about higher education , which displays some characteristic Republican tics. However understandable these tics . . . . Continue Reading »
An eighth-century depiction of the arrest of Christ from the Book of Kells . Church historian Philip Jenkins, who studied the Dark Ages (with his apologies for the term) as an undergraduate, compares the spread of Christianity in that era to its spread in our own: The central fact of the . . . . Continue Reading »
The New Apologetic Peter Blair, Patheos Hail, Columbia! Aaron M. Renn, City Journal Faith, Wonder, and the Method Joshua Schulz, Front Porch Republic The Value of a Tired Soul Dave Dunham, Gospel Coalition Ed Koch and a Pro-Life Rose Russell D. Moore, Moore to the Point . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl and Peter are right to focus on the combination of statism, lawlessness and raw injustice that characterized Jim Crow. The consciousness of Jim Crow influences how people hear contemporary debate. Lots of well meaning Tea Party folks talk about taking the country back, worry about losing . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl’s post below is, of course, on the money. Here’s CJ’s addition to it in the thread: As someone else who argues for Founderism in academic circles, I agree with what you say here. The reality of the evil of segregation means three things for me, practically: 1) I try not to . . . . Continue Reading »
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