Richard Cohen asks why people get tattoos (which 40% of 26-40 year olds have) and, after showing how styles and commitments keep changing, poses a theory and an application: I asked a college professor what she thought of tattoos, and she said that for young
Anne Applebaum writes about the textbooks that Saudi Arabia uses and sends free to Islamic schools around the world. Here is a multiple choice question from a textbook on Islam and jurisprudence: Q. “Is belief true in the following instances: (a) A man prays but
See Presumed Presidential Nominees McCain and Obama to Make First Joint Campaign Appearance on August 16 at Saddleback Church. Note too about the “interfaith” gathering. What do you think the megachurch version of Christian political activism will be?
Charles Krauthammer has written a devastating column about Brack Obama’s pretensions. An excerpt: Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted “present” nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review,
From Claudia Roden’s “Coffee: A Connoisseur’s Companion” by way of John Baruch: In Italy it was the priests who appealed to Pope Clement VIII to have the use of coffee forbidden among Christians. Satan, they said, had forbidden his followers, the infidel Moslems, the use
This weekend I talked with someone whom I think highly of who told me all of the different churches he has been a member of. At various times, depending on where he has lived, he has attended Presbyterian, Anglican, Bible, Evangelical Covenant, Campbellite, Christian Missionary
Fareed Zakaria argues that Barack Obama, who has said how he admires the first George Bush’s international policies, is the true realistic conservative when it comes to foreign policy: Obama rarely speaks in the moralistic tones of the current Bush administration. He doesn’t divide the
Radical leftist groups, hoping to recreate the disruptions of the 1968 Chicago convention, are planning big protests at the Democratic convention in Denver. The spectacle in Chicago basically destroyed the Democratic progressive movement and put Richard Nixon in the White House. Have you noticed that
Today’s political discourse excoriates politicians who have ever changed their positions. True, someone who changes his tune according to his audience or the polls demonstrates a lack of principle. But it is a good thing to change positions and even principles when those have been
Steven Pearlstein makes a good use of Shakespeare to figure out what is going on with the economy. From Macbeth and the Market: Is this a dagger we see before us, hanging over the global financial system, or a dagger of the mind, a false
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