Joe Hargrave at the American Catholic has an excellent post on ” Restructuring the Case for Life .” He bases it on a Dinseh D’Souza article for Christianity Today in which D’Souza writes: If I’m on the right track, pro-life arguments are not likely to succeed by simply . . . . Continue Reading »
Rod tells me that Nate Silver, who gained fame as the best, most readable electoral statistician around, has made a mistake . And so he has: Beck is a PoMoCon — a post-modern conservative. And his philosophy is not all that difficult to articulate. It borrows a couple of things from . . . . Continue Reading »
Another fine lesson from Scruton’s A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success. What distinguishes Burke from the French Revolutionaries is not his attachment to things past, but his desire to live fully in the present, to understand . . . . Continue Reading »
On the tenth anniversary of Slate , Jonah Goldberg wrote revealed the surefire way to get a story through the online magazine’s editorial defenses: “Pitch a story, any story, that’s counterintuitive, and someone on the receiving end will say ‘brilliant!’” That . . . . Continue Reading »
Nothing but Star Wars, Star Wars todaaaaaay . . . The more I think about Jedi as an organized religion, the more I can’t stop thinking about it. Actually, I use the word “organized” loosely. It seems that being a Jedi is more like being a Mason, or maybe a Boy Scout, than it is . . . . Continue Reading »
“As I hurtled down the highway, a pair of golden arches crept over the horizon, and the proverbial lightbulb smacked me in the forehead,” says visual artist and blogger Stephen Von Worley , “To gauge the creep of cookie-cutter commercialism, there’s no better barometer than . . . . Continue Reading »
I know that the President is busily engaged in these days with the highest affairs of state, chairing a session of the UN Security Council (a first, I believe, for an American President) and then heading off tomorrow to a meeting of the G-20 in Pittsburgh, Pa. No doubt, too, if the President . . . . Continue Reading »
Dario Ringach was formerly a researcher at UCLA who used monkeys to learn whether an optical implant in the brain and attached to glasses could help the blind to see. But he was driven out of his work by terrorists who cared more for the monkeys than the blind, and were willing to terrify a family . . . . Continue Reading »
Despite the logical fallacy in the first sentence of this excerpt, Matthew Schmitz makes some important points in his post about the contributions —both communally and economically—of the elderly: We conservatives have little business decrying euthanasia unless we also stand against the . . . . Continue Reading »
At the journal Cross-Currents , N. Daniel Korobkin explains why Orthodox Jews should pray for the government : [W]e decided to daven in the “frummer” shuls, the ones that omitted those newfangled prayers that had nothing to do with Yiddishkeit, and that were therefore not printed in the . . . . Continue Reading »
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