In an interview aired Sunday, Bill O’Reilly asked President Trump why he is so supportive of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. After all, said O’Reilly, “Putin’s a killer.” “There are a lot of killers,” Trump replied. “Got a lot of killers. What, do you think our
What a great Super Bowl. New England was down by 25 points late in the third quarter, but came back to force the first overtime in Super Bowl history, whereupon Tom Brady marched his team down the field for a winning touchdown. This was the
Justin Taylor quotes from C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. Peter Kreeft calls these lines “the single most illuminating three sentences I have ever read about our civilization.” Read those three sentences after the jump. Then consider what Kreeft says about them and my point about how
As conservatives are giddy and liberals are panic-stricken over various policies put into place by the new administration, President Trump reminds us that the conventional political lines don’t apply to him. He has announced that he is keeping in place President Obama’s non-discriminatory policy for Lesbian,
Princeton’s Robert P. George is one of our most prominent conservative thinkers, so it’s interesting to see what he has to say about President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. George, who has worked with Gorsuch, calls him a worthy successor to Justice Scalia. Gorsuch,
The Superbowl is this weekend, time for the obligatory polls about whether or not God gets involved in the outcome of sporting events. One-quarter of Americans believe that he does. About a half believe that God rewards faithful athletes with health and success. Certainly, the
Democrats have gone into full resistance mode, with Democratic Senators boycotting confirmation hearings to prevent a vote on President Trump’s candidates. (Republicans suspended the rules and approved Treasury Secretary candidate Steven Mnuchin and HHS Secretary candidate Tom Price anyway. See this.) Meanwhile, a self-described “alternative
Automotive technology has advanced to the point that self-driving cars are already on our highways, though under experimental conditions. And they may someday be feasible for the general public. One problem, however, is that it is very difficult for the sensors on self-driving cars to
Did you know that a transcript survives of the Marburg Colloquy (1529), in which Luther and Zwingli debated the presence of Christ in the elements of Holy Communion? Did you know that it is posted online? This meeting, attended by virtually all of the major
President Donald Trump has nominated Colorado appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Antonin Scalia. Reportedly, Judge Gorsuch is from that same mold: eloquent, learned, articulate, and an “originalist” when it comes to interpreting the Constitution. He
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