Our politics are polarizing, to the point that, at least in Washington, D. C., little kids are getting into fights on the playground over politics. Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak quotes a letter to parents sent by a school and cites her own 5-year-old’s political
Do you remember how liberalism used to be idealistic and ambitious, taking on big problems with boldness and confidence? Liberal presidents were always proposing vast new programs to solve our social ills: the New Frontier, the Great Society, the War on Poverty. Now, points out
I’m on the road, but I hope to get back to my hotel room in order to comment on the debate. If I’m not here, you go on without me. (Just add your “comments,” refreshing the page periodically to follow what other people are saying.)
A paragraph from a piece by Peter Berger, via Anthony Sacramone: The Lutheran understanding of the Eucharist implies a view of creation itself being a sacrament. All of nature, the world as perceived in ordinary experience and in empirical science, is sacramental—in the words of
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
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