October 27, 2008

Some well-known conservatives, such as Christopher Buckley and Ken Adelman, have jumped on the Barack Obama bandwagon. So have some of you readers. What is the conservative case for Obama? Or, put another way, in what sense can you support Obama and still consider yourself

October 27, 2008

If, as I suggest in the previous post and elsewhere, that the relativism of postmodernism is ending and that a new cultural and intellectual movement is emerging, what shall we call it? We have had modernism and postmodernism, so what would be a good term

October 27, 2008

First Things, the magazine, has a fascinating article on conservative champion Russell Kirk, who would have turned 90 on October 19. Excerpt: The problem Kirk faced, along with most conservatives, was that the Enlightenment, with its universalizing equality, secularism, and blinkered rationality, was already destroying

October 27, 2008

I just got back from North Carolina, where I gave one of the annual Luther Lectures that several churches there organize. The topic was Vocation, and John Pless, David Adams, and Detlev Schultz were also on the docket. The latter is a professor at Concordia

October 24, 2008

Now there are votive candles that one can burn as a prayer to Saint Obama: I’m not saying Barack Obama intends this, but I think many Americans are actually devising a new religion around him as their savior. It’s a secular kind of salvation, yes,

October 24, 2008

In our search for silver linings to the economic clouds, consider Michele Catalano’s argument that our financial woes may return us to a nobler version of the storied “American dream.” Although the term was coined in 1931 by James Truslow Adams, who defined it as

October 24, 2008

Yale economist Jonathan Macey shows how the government bailout plan has contributed to the panic on Wall Street and to the crisis in the finance sector. The Treasury’s quick action immediately undercut all confidence in the free market and then put measures into effect that

October 23, 2008

British atheists are launching a campaign to put ads on buses. They will read “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life”. It strikes me as odd that atheists think believing in God is a cause of worrying and not enjoying life.

October 23, 2008

Though some polls show the race tightening, many liberals are expecting a Reaganesque landslide and fantasizing about what they accomplish with a huge House majority and a filibuster-proof Senate. Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter hails the new era of liberalism that is on the verge of being

October 23, 2008

Baylor is getting criticized for offering students $300 to re-take their SAT exams, with $1000 for improving their scores 50 points or more. The university, facing ridicule, has stopped the practice. See Baptist School ‘Goofed’ in Offering Perks for SAT Retakes. Baylor wants higher scores


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