Here is a good account of the history of St. Valentine’s Day, how it’s NOT related to the pagan festival of Lupercalia and how the death day of an early Christian martyr got connected with love and romance. (Short answer: Chaucer.) So what can be
Here is a good account of the history of St. Valentine’s Day, how it’s NOT related to the pagan festival of Lupercalia and how the death day of an early Christian martyr got connected with love and romance. (Short answer: Chaucer.) So what can be
Here in Northern Virginia we woke up to about 12 inches of it, and it looks like there is that much still in the air coming down. And we’re supposed to get another wave tonight. It’s a snow day–one of those gifts of free time
A conservative alternative to Obamacare has been unveiled. Read about it after the jump. Then consider these questions: (1) Does it sound better than Obamacare? (2) What is particularly conservative about it? (3) Is it qualitatively different from other efforts to have the government presiding
How American history and the Constitution are taught in high schools: The authors of United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination have taken it upon themselves to change the Constitution of the United States. The high school textbook contains a summary of each
The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution reads as follows: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath
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
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