Sad news. I had the privilege of meeting him once at a Chesterton conference out in Minneapolis. Brilliant and charmingly irascible. A good man and a very deep thinker. May God our Father grant him eternal rest through our Lord Jesus Christ. Read more

Sad news. I had the privilege of meeting him once at a Chesterton conference out in Minneapolis. Brilliant and charmingly irascible. A good man and a very deep thinker. May God our Father grant him eternal rest through our Lord Jesus Christ. Read more

A reader writes about my remark that likening Obama to Hitler is crazy beyond comparison: Am I missing something? Can you explain why you see the comparison as “crazy”? You mean besides the fact that he’s not a demented megalomaniac racist with a theory that he belongs to a Master Race fated by Destiny to rule the world by means of a massive conquering military machine, armed with the power to enslave, commit genocide against naturally inferior peoples and races,... Read more

A reader writes about my remark that likening Obama to Hitler is crazy beyond comparison: Am I missing something? Can you explain why you see the comparison as “crazy”? You mean besides the fact that he’s not a demented megalomaniac racist with a theory that he belongs to a Master Race fated by Destiny to rule the world by means of a massive conquering military machine, armed with the power to enslave, commit genocide against naturally inferior peoples and races,... Read more

In one of the sillier moments of self-dramatizing atheism, some ex-Catholic writes a piece called “Let my Person Go!” and recounts, with unwitting comedy, his bafflement over how to get himself excommunicated from the Church. It seems that some highly advanced mammals splashed water on him as a kid and mumbled some words over him, followed by several years of ingesting some organic materials and listening to readings from translations of writings by various ancient hominids who held certain beliefs... Read more

Vicky Gene says “religion hampers gay civil rights“. In fact, of course, God is the only thing that guarantees that we have any rights at all. It is only God, as revealed in Scripture, who is the source of our rights. If rights are merely a fiction granted by the state, or another way of saying “Whatever the strong will” then nobody, including gays, has any rights at all. A society steeped in the Christian tradition can hold the notion... Read more

Vicky Gene says “religion hampers gay civil rights“. In fact, of course, God is the only thing that guarantees that we have any rights at all. It is only God, as revealed in Scripture, who is the source of our rights. If rights are merely a fiction granted by the state, or another way of saying “Whatever the strong will” then nobody, including gays, has any rights at all. A society steeped in the Christian tradition can hold the notion... Read more

I remember back in the day when one of the most frustrating things about being opposed to the Iraq war was that so many of the other people who opposed the war were, well, jabbering nutcases. Now, I find myself in much the same position in my opposition to Barack Obama’s pro-death policies. So many of the people who oppose Obama are nutty as jaybirds, not to mention stunningly full of the most bizarre conspiracy theories and crazy chatter. To... Read more

I remember back in the day when one of the most frustrating things about being opposed to the Iraq war was that so many of the other people who opposed the war were, well, jabbering nutcases. Now, I find myself in much the same position in my opposition to Barack Obama’s pro-death policies. So many of the people who oppose Obama are nutty as jaybirds, not to mention stunningly full of the most bizarre conspiracy theories and crazy chatter. To... Read more

Within the past 20 years, we’ve seen people proclaim the End of History, the End of Faith, and now the End of Philosophy. It is typical of Generation Narcissus that it would produce such a bumper crop of people who really do believe that wisdom will die with them, that you can just shut off the lights once we have exited the scene, that everything worth doing, saying, and thinking will have been done when the last Baby Boomer shuffles... Read more