We’ve blogged about the controversy surrounding Thrivent, the Lutheran financial company, which offered matching funds for contributions to charities, including Planned Parenthood. At response to the uproar from pro-life Lutherans, company officials said that they would no longer match contributions to the abortion provider OR
Edmund Burke is considered the father of modern conservatism, while his contemporary Thomas Paine is a forerunner of modern liberalism. Yuval Levin has written a new book, The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left. A review by Michael
An article about what knocked off the mammoths–not man as previously thought, but climate change–got even more interesting when it told about a current proposal that environmentalists are making: “Rewild” America by bringing back into the countryside elephants, camels, lions, and other ancestors of animals
Amy Chua, the author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, has written with Jed Rubenfeld another controversial book about ethnic drive: The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America. Members of certain cultural groups do
Have you noticed how ugly most of our communities are, all the strip malls, concrete boxes, offices, and even churches, void of aesthetic touches? There is certainly “art,” but it tends to be walled away in museums, rather than being part of a living community
President Obama postponed yet again the Employer Mandate part of Obamacare, which will require employers of 50 or more workers to provide them health insurance. The measure was supposed to go into effect in 2014, but he had earlier postponed it until 2015. Now it
Political theorist Patrick J. Deneen notes two different and conflict schools among Roman Catholic conservatives: one believes that Catholic Christianity is compatible with American democracy, with its ideals of freedom, individual rights, free markets, etc. The other faction believes that all of these American ideals
Raising kids is hard, stressful, and exhausting. A new book goes so far as to say that having kids actually makes people less happy than people without them. The author does say, however, that having kids gives something different than happiness: joy. After the jump,
Thanks to Kirk and to the recommendations from Al, Elizabeth, and Todd at yesterday’s post for alerting me to this touching and illuminating account from British comedian Russell Brand about why he used heroin, how he got clean and has been for 10 years, and
The Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, get started today. So far, much of the buzz about the Olympics has been about terrorism fears and complaints about the lack of creature comforts for visitors (undrinkable water, unfinished construction, public toilets without privacy, insects in food, pillows
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