Old people can’t write poetry. Only those who think and live and feel and praise and swear and fight and love and give birth to babies can give birth to poems. Not old people. No dear old lady living in retirement with a shawl around her shoulders, living among . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell Kirk rejects modernity in favor of an unpalatable . . . . Continue Reading »
Pope John Paul II's Centesimus annus affirms the cultural and its religious . . . . Continue Reading »
The Presbyterian Church rejects the postmodern, relativist findings of its Task Force on Human . . . . Continue Reading »
Just when the Supreme Court is beginning to reconsider “affirmative action” plans that provide preferences on the basis of race, the Secretary of Education, Lamar Alexander, has decided, at least pending further review, to throw his weight behind “minority” scholarships that discriminatorily . . . . Continue Reading »
Christians see an ultimately knowable universe while acknowledging their own . . . . Continue Reading »
The state must take a stand against . . . . Continue Reading »
Defending Kagan One can, of course, differ with the thesis of Donald Kagan’s Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, but to suggest (as the April editorial, “How Democracy Came About and How It Might Be Sustained,” does) that the work has anything in common with . . . . Continue Reading »
Theonomy: A Reformed Critique edited by William S. Barker and W. Robert Godfrey Zondervan, 413 pages, $15.95 Certainly one of the more interesting religious stories of recent years has been the attraction of growing numbers of evangelical Christians to a variation of Reformed . . . . Continue Reading »
Has the Catholic Church lost its place in the public . . . . Continue Reading »
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