Tonight is the final presidential candidate debate. Help me live-blog it tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET. I think the significance of the debates is not so much whether one candidate scores more points than another, zings his opponent more effectively, or makes or avoids gaffes.
The Dust Bowl has returned to my native Oklahoma. A huge dust storm hit Blackwell, Oklahoma, causing a 30-car pileup on I-35. Blackwell is where my daughter, son-in-law, and three grand-daughters live! Dust storm in Oklahoma causes highway to close and thirty
Thomas Kidd coins a useful new world–paleo evangelicals–and says why this brand of conservative Christians do not identify with the Republican party: The paleo evangelicals are not liberal in any sense. They come from diverse backgrounds and perspectives: some are deeply conversant with the ancient
Frank Sonnek points to this post, which rehearses all of the dire warnings made four years ago about what would happen if Barack Obama were to be elected, most of which never amounted to anything: “This is the most important election of all time!” (again).
J. R. R. Tolkien has a new book coming out next year, a 200-page narrative poem about King Arthur. From the British newspaper The Guardian: It’s the story of a dark world, of knights and princesses, swords and sorcery, quests and betrayals, and it’s from
British author Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize for her novel Bring Up the Bodies. This is the second time she won this top award for British fiction. The first time was for Wolf Hall. Both novels are about Thomas Cromwell, the consigliere to Henry
The Maryland state legislature has legalized gay marriage. Some citizens, though, as is their right, have circulated a petition calling for a referendum on the issue. So the D.C. area gay newspaper, The Washington Blade, published the names of the people who signed the petition,
Evangelicals and Mormons together: Shortly after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney enjoyed cookies and soft drinks with the Rev. Billy Graham and his son Franklin Graham on Thursday at the elder Graham’s mountaintop retreat, a reference to Mormonism as a cult was scrubbed from the
Thanks for the live blog from last night. So who won this debate? Do you think the more aggressive stance from Obama, with the two candidates getting into each other’s space and into each other’s face, paid off? How will this debate play with undecided
The New York Review of Books has published a rather remarkable article by Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern, a detailed account of the ways Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his family opposed the Nazi regime. You might be familiar with Bonhoeffer’s activities–though I learned a lot I
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