I’m not usually that big on the phobias. I’m all for respecting and loving gay people, but I doubt there’s really a disorder that’s properly labelled “homophobia.” And I was skeptical when our provost here at Berry College cautioned us to be sensitive to students . . . . Continue Reading »
The German Marshall Fund has just released Transatlantic Trends , their annual survey of European and American public opinion. The survey collects data on issues ranging from the popularity of the American President (Europeans really like President Obama and they really hated G. W. Bush) to . . . . Continue Reading »
I admit I didn’t see the president’s speech tonight. I was on a plane to Washington DC to appear tomorrow night in a Webcast put on by the Family Research Council on Obamacare.But I have read it. I’m tired and have to get up early tomorrow, and so I don’t want . . . . Continue Reading »
A British tribunal has ruled that employers must treat strongly held views on climate change practices the same as they would religious beliefs : Senior executive Tim Nicholson claimed he was unfairly dismissed by a property investment company because his views on the environment conflicted with . . . . Continue Reading »
” China’s Catholic Moment ,” Francesco Sisci’s article in FT’s previous issue, called attention to Christianity’s astonishing growth in the world’s most populous nation. Just as significant there is the growth, despite systematic persecution, of Christian . . . . Continue Reading »
Farouk Hasni is an Egyptian artist, an abstract painter with exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and institutions in Europe and the Middle East. For a while, he looked like a shoo-in to become the next director general of UNESCO (U.N. . . . . Continue Reading »
I consider myself a Martin Luther King liberal, which is to say, I am now called a conservative. As a man who has co-authored four books with Ralph Nader, that still seems surrealistic to me. Nevertheless, I have reluctantly concluded that the Left (generally) isn’t interested in . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest issue of Commentary, Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner have offered the latest volley in the ongoing war to define conservatism’s future . While less comprehensive than the path offered by Dreher or Salam/Douthat, Gerson and Wehner offer their own distinct blend of foci as a . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things contributing writer Yuval Levin has just launched the new public policy journal National Affairs . The new quarterly, which picks up the banner from the sorely missed The Public Interest, focuses on domestic policy and political economy. Only a few days old, the fledgling journal . . . . Continue Reading »
Nashville, Tennessee: home to the Southern Baptist Publishing House, the United Methodist Upper Room devotional guides, and many enormous churches. And what religious landmark do tourists want to visit? The Parthenon. Several years ago, by the way, the children and I read an historical novel on . . . . Continue Reading »
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