Ryan Anderson’s new book Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom now has 157 comments at the Amazon page. The average rating in the “Customer Reviews” section is 3.5 stars out of 5, a score that would cast it as a middling effort in ordinary circumstances. But . . . . Continue Reading »
A new Associated Press-Gfk poll, released on July 18, reveals that the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision to make same-sex marriage a constitutional right has not solved the deeper debate in this country, contrary to the media assertion that this is settled “law” and that everybody needs to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Liberal Theory of Justice Doesn't Support Abortion
Jonah Goldberg, National Review
Why do we Love Plato?
Will Durant, The Imaginative Conservative
Immigrant Bashers Will Lose the Evangelical Vote
Russell Moore and Samuel Rodriguez, Wall Street Journal
How Greece's Prime Minister Sold a Wildly Unpopular Deal
Adam Chandler, The Atlantic
At the end of his Apostolic Visit to South America, Pope Francis instructed a crowd of young people to “make a ruckus.” He qualified, “Make . . . a ruckus that brings a free heart, a ruckus that brings solidarity, a ruckus that brings us hope, a ruckus that comes from knowing Jesus and knowing . . . . Continue Reading »
The Latest: Shooting in Chattanooga
Associated Press
The Bad, Worse, & Ugly Media Coverage of Planned Parenthood
Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist
Was the Iran Deal Worth It?
Shadi Hamid, The Atlantic
79 Theses on Technology
John Durham Peters, Hedgehog Review
One thing that I’ve heard from several people when I mention the surge in Dominican vocations (and the surge of many dioceses and orders male and female) is “Oh, it must be the recession.” Truly, I have not met one religious who set aside marital joys, self-determination, and wealth . . . . Continue Reading »
Though only the first act of Denis Johnson’s Angels takes place in transit, the book has the feel of a road novel—specifically, an American road novel. The story is straightforward: Two people, Jamie Mays and Bill Houston, meet aboard a Greyhound. One is in flight from an unfaithful . . . . Continue Reading »
The Dawn of the Iranian Empire
Max Boot, Commentary
Rebuilding a Marriage Culture: A Fourfold Mission for the Church
Ryan T. Anderson, Canon and Culture
Against Honeymoons
Charles Comey, Point Magazine
The Past Goes On Trial in North Carolina
David A. Graham, The Atlantic
More Catholic, Less American
Matthew Schmitz, Patheos
Two days after the Obergefell decision, New York Times columnist Mark Oppenheimer suggested that it is now time to rethink the idea of tax-exempt status for religious institutions: “Rather than try to rescue tax-exempt status for organizations that dissent from settled public policy on matters of . . . . Continue Reading »
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