When someone chalked “vote for Trump” messages on the sidewalk, students at Emory University protested, saying seeing these words made them feel “frightened.” The administration, playing the role of in loco helicopteris parentis, held their hands, offering counseling and promising to investigate who committed this brazen act of democracy.
In Syria, rebels backed by the Pentagon are fighting rebels backed by the CIA. Yet more proof, says Jonah Goldberg channelling Kevin Williamson, that the government should be in charge of everything. Less sarcastically, it is proof of the incoherence of our foreign policy, the ineptness
Imagine my surprise and my pride in seeing my cousin’s daughter quoted by David Brooks in the New York Times. Lorien Foote is a Civil War historian at Texas A&M. She is utterly brilliant and a true expert in her field. (When she visited us
[NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S JOKE!] A Stanford professor of law and genetics is maintaining that within as few as twenty years, the connection between sex and procreation will come to an end. No longer will sex have anything to do with reproduction. According to Henry T.
[NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S JOKE!] Hillary Clinton announces her policy on undocumented aliens. (more…)
The Acton Institute has put together a sample from my new book Working for Our Neighbor: A Lutheran Primer on Vocation, Economics, and Ordinary Life. It doesn’t include the new things I get into in this particular publication–much of what is excerpted here is developed in
Donald Trump’s former Communications Director gives a fascinating inside story about his campaign. She says that Trump’s original goal was to be a protest candidate who polled in double digits and came in second. He never intended to win and never dreamed of having the success
Republicans hoping to stop Donald Trump are hoping for a deadlocked convention. But what about a deadlocked electoral college? A third party effort in today’s climate could make that happen. Whereupon the choice for president is up to the House of Representatives. Which Republicans control.
Moral relativism is over. Moral absolutes are back. The problem is, these are new moral absolutes, with little connection to traditional objective morality. And yet because the new moralism is concerned only with tolerance and inclusion, it lacks principles such as justice, temperance, and mercy that can
Conservatives have had to be careful to say they would apply no “litmus test” for Supreme Court nominees, when it comes to abortion or other controversial issues. But Hillary Clinton is saying that she WILL have a litmus test for her nominees. They must be
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