Genesis tells us when the serpent spoke to the woman, her husband was with her (Gen. 3:6). Yet evidently Adam is silent . Why? I’m thinking we might learn how to answer this question from Ahab and Jezebel, whose story is similar in several respects. The crucial similarity is that the man knows . . . . Continue Reading »
National Review Online has posted an interview on What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense that I gave to Zachary Young, a reporter for the Yale Politic . Here’s a bit: Our argument can explain and justify at the level of principle (and not merely as a matter of . . . . Continue Reading »
“The Marxist ideology is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended,” says Pope Francis, in answer to a question about how he feels about “ultraconservative” critics of his Evangelii Gaudium calling him a marxist. . . . . Continue Reading »
The satire may be a little heavy-handed in an Onion article on the Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy , but it does get at the way some people feel about Jews. Or, as some of them would put it, “the Jews.” (That definite article is important.) Or, at a strategic rhetorical distance, . . . . Continue Reading »
A lovely and imperative meditation on Christmas from America on The Terrifying First Christmas . The First Christmas, we tend to forget, rattles a marriage. It exiles a family. It endangers lives. And it provokes a madman to murder. The brisk descriptions in the New Testament fail to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Constitution’s parts describing impeachment are few—the first two are in Article I, section 3: The House of Representatives . . . . . . shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. . . . The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay, so a little more Breaking Bad blogging. Spoilers ahead. Over at the Atlantic, Chris Heller writes that Ozymandias was the fitting conclusion for Breaking Bad because: Nobody is saved and everybody suffers. That’s the ending Breaking Bad needed. Bleak, merciless, and tragic. I think . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Friday! Here’s what we have for you as we head into the weekend: Maureen Mullarkey sleeps through sermons . What Peter Leithart is reading about: what Jesus ate, Trojan popes , Levinas , James Bond , Paul Ryan . He’s also still reading N. T. Wright, and Sara Coakley’s God, . . . . Continue Reading »
A few days ago, Terry Teachout had a piece on pop culture writing in the Wall Street Journal —specifically, why there’s so much high-quality pop culture writing, to the apparent exclusion of higher forms of culture. He thinks it indicates a basic frivolity. “It used to be that we . . . . Continue Reading »
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