It’s early in the head-to-head campaign, with some polls showing Romney ahead and others showing Obama. The deciding factor, of course, is the electoral college. It takes 270 to win. According to this analysis in the Washington Post, Obama has 196 electoral votes tied up,
A letter from the late poet W. H. Auden to his pastor, on the occasion of the church–St. Mark’s Episcopal in New York City–adopting a more modern liturgy: 77 St Mark’s Place New York City 3 Nov. 26th [year not given] Dear Father Allen: Have
Eighty years ago on this day, May 22, 1932, Josef Stalin began his program to eliminate the very memory of the name of God in the Soviet Union within 5 years. The following account of Stalin’s “atheistic five-year plan” is from a Russian site and
I have spared you my American Idol reflections up to this point, that show being one of my pop-culture vices, but a recent performance was so emblematic that I cannot help but comment upon it. Joshua Ledet, arguably the best singer in the contest (who
Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, is a rising star in the Democratic party. He’s in trouble with Democrats now, though, for objecting to the Obama campaign’s attack on Mitt Romney’s old private-equity firm, Bain Capital. Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, a close
Ross Douthat begins with reflections on three recent cases in American religion: the popularity of prosperity-gospeller Joel Osteen; President Obama’s statement that the reason he now favors gay marriage is because he follows Jesus; and new statistics that find that non-denominational Christianity is now the
Europeans are torn about the best approach to fix their messed-up economies: austerity (cutting government budgets and deficits) or stimulus (the government spending even more money and running up even bigger deficits in an effort to jump-start economic growth). Austerity, as recommended by Germany, had
The New York Times broke a shocking story: Joe Ricketts, an up-by-the-bootstraps billionaire whose varied holdings include a name-brand brokerage firm in Omaha, a baseball team in Chicago, herds of bison in Wyoming and a start-up news Web site in New York, wanted to be
The blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, whom we have been blogging about, has been released and has arrived in the United States, where he will be a fellow at New York University. Melinda Henneberger writes about the human rights issue Chen has been battling: The
Yesterday was Ascension Day, marking the resurrected Christ’s return to His Father. Pastor Reeder quotes the classic Bible scholar Paul E. Kretzmann on what the Ascension means: “By His exaltation and ascension the Son of Man, also according to His human body, has entered into
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