Our sixth grandchild was born today! So bright-eyed and alert already!
Our sixth grandchild was born today! So bright-eyed and alert already!
Harvard Divinity School professor Stephanie Paulsell tells about worshipping at Harvard: On Wednesdays at noon we gather for community worship organized by a student steering committee and the director of religious and spiritual life. When I first came to Harvard Divinity School, the weekly community
The line of attack on Romney from the rest of the Republican field (except for Ron Paul) is that he is a capitalist! He made profits! He fired people! In other words, the ostensibly conservative candidates are attacking him from the left, sounding like Occupy
The case of Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran School vs. the EEOC is being argued before the Supreme Court. J. Christian Adams sees the Justice Department’s case as being a major assault on religious liberty. Here is his take: Like so much from this Justice Department,
M. Romney 39.4% R. Paul 22.8% J. Huntsman 16.9% N. Gingrich 9.4% R. Santorum 9.3% R. Perry 0.7% B. Roemer 0.4% M. Bachmann 0.1% G. Johnson 0.1% H. Cain 0.1% via Politics, Political News – POLITICO.com. You be the analyst.
Some Republicans, resigning themselves to what looks like an inevitable Mitt Romney nomination, are growing philosophical. Yes, Romney falls short ideologically. But maybe we don’t need an ideologue. Maybe a management consultant as president is exactly what we need. From Michael Gerson: Maybe, at this
Ezra Klein points out that in the 19th century the different newspapers were tied to and funded by political parties. The news was slanted accordingly. But then newspaper revenue switched to advertising. This led to a greater degree of objectivity–as well as blandness–since newspapers didn’t
At the Pentagon last week President Obama announced the new defense budget, which will include some cuts and will also herald a new military strategy. Briefly, the president declared that the last decade’s wars against Islamic radicals are over. And we will be pulling troops
Classic environmentalism wants to restore things to their pristine condition, untouched by man. But a new kind of environmentalism thinks that man should actively take the lead in steering “spaceship earth.” More and more environmentalists and scientists talk about the planet as a complex system,
Frances Saunders reports in the British newspaper The Independent that modern art, particularly abstract expressionism, was funded by the C.I.A. as part of its covert war on communism. For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is
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