David Brooks has created a stir with a NYT column entitled "What If We're the Bad Guys Here?" Acknowledging as his social class must that Trump is horrible, he raises the possibility that his fellow Ivy League-educated elite professionals may be to blame for Trump's popularity.
We've blogged about "National Conservativism" and its manifesto. Now the other kind of conservatism, the strain still committed to personal liberty and free market economics, has a manifesto and a catchy name: Freedom Conservatism.
The American Academy of Pediatrics will revisit "gender affirmation care"; Republican candidates hide their church, while Democrats wear it on their sleeve; and Italy is banning the use of surrogate mothers.
The one theological virtue that is still in favor today is love. According to Peter Leithart, "Liberal love is now the established religion, public philosophy, and ethic in the U.S. and elsewhere—love as enforced tolerance, love as non-judgmentalism, love as unqualified acceptance and endorsement." The Bible gives us a far different and far more radical understanding of love:
A pundit has said, "If AI can produce series, movies, or political-economy-related op-eds more cheaply and quickly — and make them more entertaining — than human writers can, it should substitute us." That's good free market conservatism. But do you agree?
The word "secular" today means having nothing to do with religion. But the term came from a Latin word referring to a period of time; that is, an "age." To be "secular" means to be of the present age only. And "ages" always pass away. In contrast, classical education is "not of an age but for all time." And so is Christianity.
As Hollywood flounders, faith-based films are flourishing. Now some big studios and big directors are planning to get in on the action. Moreover, the number of movies that are not explicitly religious but have positive moral and redemptive content is also up dramatically. Even though church attendance is dropping.
The Providing for Life Act would greatly expand the COVID-era child tax credit into a subsidy of up to $4,500 per child, including unborn children. It would include other measures designed, in the words of Rep. Ashley Hinson, to set "the policy course for a culture of life in America." It is also a test case in the conflict between the two conservative ideologies: limited government vs. big government for conservative goals.
Mocking a survey is defined as fascism, a tale of two Supreme Courts, and a Lutheran pastor is driven out of Canada.
Much of the general public are down on the concept of "organized religion." They are often fine with "spirituality" or even "religion," but they don't want it to be organized into doctrines, worship, and being part of a church. Anthony DeStefano defends the organized part, showing that every important venture and every relationship needs organization. And to get somewhere requires a map, a guide, and fellow-travelers.
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