Chris Christie’s attack on Rand Paul - where Christie complained about piddling “esoteric” libertarian concerns voiced by people who were too cowardly to face “the widows and the orphans” of 9/11 -reminded me of something, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. It . . . . Continue Reading »
Or, a libertarian might say, why am I so afraid to be paid what I’m WORTH . . . . . Continue Reading »
In a follow-up to last week’s piece on America’s international efforts for religious freedom, George Weigel lays out some of the reasons for Washington’s placidity while religious minorities suffer in Egypt, Nigeria, China, Indonesia, and around the world: Lack of strategic . . . . Continue Reading »
In this morning’s On the Square , Andrew Doran reminds us of the tribulations the Russian people have suffered in the past century. In 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, seems incomprehensibly remote: “The entire twentieth century,” Solzhenitsyn observed in his 1983 . . . . Continue Reading »
The eminent, often iconoclastic, sociologist Robert Bellah passed away in recent days at the age of eighty six. The cause of death was apparently complication from a minor surgery. While Bellah was not a young man, when I saw him last December he was physically sturdy and mentally vigorous. . . . . Continue Reading »
Ignatius’ Magnanimity P. Bracy Bersnak, Crisis Generation Peak-Teen Danny Dorling, New Statesman “Decontaminating the Brand”? Damian Thompson, Telegraph Aristotle Can’t Refute Evolution Robert T. Miller, Public Discourse The Rise of the Chicken Little Evangelical Blogger . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friends at the Thomistic Institute are proud to announce a series of six lectures at the Catholic Center at New York University, themed around the Catholic faith’s intersection with the arts. Running from September to February, the lecture series will host scholars, pastors, and writers. . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday the FT blog saw much discussion of the Reza Aslan interview on FOX News. Today Timothy Michael Law, editor of Marginalia Review of Books , posted his spoof of the interview. LAUREN GREEN: Timothy Michael Law has never been a Hellenistic Jew but has always followed the faith of his . . . . Continue Reading »
While Peter has invited a discussion of “archaic conservatism” and “libertarian populism”—labels so nuanced or recondite as to befuddle the mind—we here in Charlottesville are still observing Tocqueville’s birthday, which warrants a one-week celebration. And if . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square , Keith Riler debunks the notion that abortion saves money: The birth of anyone, poor or not, will yield substantial economic benefit. Specifically, in Texas the $11,000 Medicaid-birth cost will on average return $430,000, or thirty-nine times the investment, in . . . . Continue Reading »
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