This is the ninth part in a twelve part devotional commentary on “O Holy Night.” See the introduction here.Truly He taught us To love one another;His law is love And His gospel is peace.God the Father did not send the Son simply to die for our sins and then abandon us to continue to live . . . . Continue Reading »
The Community School is post-post-modern and the chief “friend” (the Community School term for the head) Laura is fighting with a new student Colleen about Christmas. Colleen is aided by Brownies . . . and the result is the end of chaos. You can start this show here.Here at last are the . . . . Continue Reading »
As I have often warned, the next big agenda item in organ transplant medicine is gaining license for transplant surgeons to kill the cognitively devastated and imminently dying patients for their organs. Such a policy is pushed from two different angles, both of which try to convince us . . . . Continue Reading »
Mr. Ben Nelson is a jolly old United States Senator for Nebraska. He was fighting for principle in opposing abortion funding in the health care reform moving through Congress.Now he is backing health care reform without the language he originally demanded.It would be easy to caricature Senator . . . . Continue Reading »
We reach the last act of Brownies for Christmas a radio play for Christmas. The Community School is post-post-modern and the chief “friend” (the Community School term for the head) Laura is fighting with a new student Colleen about Christmas. Colleen is aided by Brownies . . . and the . . . . Continue Reading »
I think America’s system of easy bankruptcy is one of the jewels of our economic and political institutions, because it allows people who genuinely cannot repay their bills to get a fresh start as quickly as possible. I think non-recourse mortgages are an excellent idea, which I would like to . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t usually say this — in fact, I’ve never said it — but go read Frank Rich: specifically, his long column on the Decade of Bamboozlement . Beneath the flash of the cons that characterized the past ten years, however, is a quieter and truer truth: corruption. It is, as . . . . Continue Reading »
Do physics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and related fields of inquiry provide evidence for life after death? Dinesh D’Souza considers that question in his latest book . But as Joseph Bottum says in a review for National Review (sub. req.), D’Souza is out of his depth: Every once . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing in The Weekly Standard , my editor Joseph Bottum encourages us to listen to the peculiar, poetic language of Christmas: [T]here is something more in Advent than just the happenstantial activity of our nativity language, something more than the plain task of getting across a complex seasonal . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times has a lengthy profile of one of my intellectual heroes—Princeton professor and First Things advisory board member Robert George : For 20 years, George has operated largely out of public view at the intersection of academia, religion and politics. In the past 12 months, . . . . Continue Reading »
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