I came of age as a professor at the threshold of Ronald Reagan when so many American evangelicals climbed aboard the GOP and conservative politics (of a sort) and were against abortion (and voted... Read more
What few people know is that Kudlow entered the Roman Catholic Church in 1997, after plunging into a period of personal disaster involving alcohol and cocaine abuse. Read more
We claim to follow a pacifist Christ who told us to love our enemies; who said "blessed are the peacemakers"; who told Peter to put his sword away. "Yes, but—" Christians say. Read more
I woke up much later than I wanted to, of course, because of daylight savings, and listened to those curiously lucent chapters in the middle of Exodus, following upon the calamity of the golden... Read more
For any of this to make sense, you must understand that the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ was political. Christ posed a threat to the empire, so they tortured him, labeled him a "terrorist," then... Read more
To have a rational conversation about anything, there has to be a minimal set of common facts to which you can appeal. But what if you can’t even agree on what the facts are in the first place? Read more
