A New Year’s custom on this blog is to have readers predict what will happen in the year ahead. That’s not particularly unique. But what is unique is our other custom: To review those predictions at the end of the year and actually check how
A New Year’s custom on this blog is to have readers predict what will happen in the year ahead. That’s not particularly unique. But what is unique is our other custom: To review those predictions at the end of the year and actually check how
Now it’s time for you to predict what will happen in 2012! See the accompanying post that looks back on last year’s predictions for how the contest works. Don’t worry. We are not enforcing the Deuteronomy 18:22 rule. Anyway, we aren’t asking for prophecy, just
Here are the top news stories of 2011 according to the Associated Press: 1. Bin Laden’s death 2. Disasters in Japan 3. The Arab Spring 4. EU fiscal crisis 5. U.S. economy 6. Penn State scandal 7. Gadhafi’s fall 8. U.S. Congress 9. Occupy protests
As a Virginian, my only choices in the Republican primary are Mitt Romney and Ron Paul–the other candidates having failed to get on the ballot–so I am studying these candidates closely. There would be a certain coolness factor in voting for Paul. But I’ve got
Not everything in our society is going from bad to worse. Over the last decade, we have seen a dramatic drop in the crime rate, and it keeps getting better. Charles Lane gives some details: The most important social trend of the past 20 years
Gerard Baker of England has become a convert to American football. He explains why: In its energy and complexity, football captures the spirit of America better than any other cultural creation on this continent, and I don’t mean because it features long breaks in which
Nothing, as far as I can see, from a conservative point of view. He is under no suspicion of being a closet liberal. He is a devout Christian, a Catholic but one who seem evangelical. He agrees with the social conservative agenda. He has been
The Economist tells how Luther, in effect, used social media: Although they were written in Latin, the “95 Theses” caused an immediate stir, first within academic circles in Wittenberg and then farther afield. In December 1517 printed editions of the theses, in the form of
Anne Hendershott traces a significant stream of postmodernist scholarship over the last decade that amounts to an academic defense of pedophilia. After all, so say these scholars, both childhood and sexual morality are nothing more than social constructions. A sample, though you’ll want to read
I don’t like to blow my own horn. I don’t even like to call attention to when someone else is blowing it. Still, since you readers and commenters are a big part of what makes this blog work, I can’t resist passing this along. Tim Challies
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