Conservatives who repudiate the Founders; pro-lifers using leftist tactics; and Argentina and Netherlands vote anti-establishment.
Conservatives who repudiate the Founders; pro-lifers using leftist tactics; and Argentina and Netherlands vote anti-establishment.
They had good intentions. They won the arguments. But the policies they put into place were colossal failures. As even many of their former advocates are admitting.
Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman have the feeling that a change is in the air. Do you sense that? What is it?
We are right to thank God for our Thanksgiving feast and for all of our other blessings through the year, even though they come to us by means of ordinary human beings. This is because Thanksgiving has to do with vocation.
Thomas Hobbes is one of those classic writers who stimulates thought and advances important ideas, even though the reader disagrees with his conclusions. In his book "Leviathan," he says that there are only three kinds of government: monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. And he gives reasons why monarchy is the best.
We have been worrying about the decline of Christianity, and we have also been worrying about the decline of liberalism (that is, liberal in the sense of "freedom," plus individual rights, plus democratic self-government). British political philosopher thinks those two declines are connected. And that we are devolving into a Hobbesian state of "war of all against all."
Finnish Lutherans acquitted--again; the two most vocal Christians pull out of the presidential race; and the American Medical Association says "no" to euthanasia.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the Somali-Dutch activist and writer who, a cradle Muslim, has become one of the major critics of radical Islam. With multiple fatwas calling for her death, Ayaan became an atheist. But now she has become a Christian.
Military experts say that the recruiting shortfall and the dramatic drop-off in the reserves have dire consequences for America's ability to fight a modern war. Especially because new weapons technology results in higher casualties. They recommend moving away from an all-volunteer armed services to a "partial conscription." Do you agree?
The largest group of Protestants in the United States is now the non-denominationals. But non-denominational churches still have denominational distinctives. And there is nothing wrong with that.
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