Christopher Hitchens, one of the “new atheists,” has died of cancer at age 62. An iconoclast skeptical not only about religion but about conventional liberalism, Hitchens won wide respect, including that of many Christians who debated him. One of his sparring partners, Doug Wilson, has written
Yesterday the war in Iraq officially came to an end. The American flag in Baghdad was taken down, a somber ceremony was held (with no representation from the Iraqi government), and peace was declared. The war lasted 9 years, with 4,500 Americans giving their lives.
Newt Gingrich grew up Lutheran! So did Ron Paul. So did Michele Bachmann. And Jon Huntsman, though a Mormon, went to a Lutheran school in Los Angeles. That Paul and Bachmann used to be Lutherans is common knowledge, but I did not know about Gingrich.
Despite the current economic doldrums, a new business is booming: the tattoo removal industry. Emily Wax reports: She arrives quietly, coming in from the rain after work. She lies down on her stomach atop a sleek, white reclining chair. She lifts her shirt and
Issues, Etc. host Todd Wilkens has posted a provocative point on his Facebook page on the perennial “keep Christ in Christmas” controversies. Since I’m one of the ten or eleven Americans not on Facebook, I’m indebted to my friend Michael O’Connor for showing it to
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2011 is, once again, not a person but the personification of a category: The Protester. By which is meant the protesters in Egypt, the Middle East, Europe, Russia, and America. That is to say, Occupy Wall Street. Strangely,
Yes, the shopping malls are packed this time of year. But hardly any are being built any more. And many of the existing malls are being demolished. The concept of the vast enclosed shopping space surrounded by a vast parking lot seems to be fading.
I stumbled upon this post by Westminster professor Carl Trueman from way back in 2007: Listening to Janis Joplin the other day, I was struck by two things. First, my eleven year old son (who had never, to my knowledge, heard Joplin) commented as he heard the
A host of new domain names are going up on the internet, with unintended consequences: There’s been a scramble to snap up domain names for the Internet’s newest designation — .xxx — but not necessarily from those you’d expect. Adult sites have reserved their spot
The Supreme Court will rule on whether or not the federal government can overrule Arizona’s strict immigration laws. This is only one of some big cases the Supremes have taken on: The Supreme Court on Monday intervened in another high-profile case testing the authority of
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