The line that gave us most of the Holy Roman Emperors–including Charles V, before whom Luther confessed his faith at the Diet of Worms, who was presented the Augsburg Confession, and who battled the Reformation with the sword–is now extinct. The eldest son of the
Denver bishop James D. Conley offers a potentially useful new word: In our day, those “decrying the Christian religion” have seized the captain’s seat in America—in the academy, the media, the government and courts. The result is a kind of publicly enforced religious indifferentism, or
Liberals are afflicted with tea party envy. According to leftist political theory, populist movements–grassroot uprisings of the masses–are supposed to advance the agenda of the left. But in America most populist movements lean right. So Democrats are trying to organize a tea party of their
Climate scientists–the established ones, not the renegades–have found that global surface temperatures did not rise from 1998 to 2008, despite heightened carbon emissions, and they have been trying to figure out why. Now they are saying the temperature drop is anthropogenic, the result (like they
Gay marriage is not the only revolution in the works. The lead article in the last New York Times Magazine makes the case for consensual adultery as a way to keep marriages together: [Rep. Anthony Weiner’s] visage was insisting, night after night, that we think
E. J. Dionne says that, contrary to what tea party conservatives are saying, our founding documents are not anti-government: A reading of the Declaration of Independence makes clear that our forebears were not revolting against taxes as such — and most certainly not against government
The world’s military industrial complex–impressed with the USA’s ability to zap enemies from the air with remote-controlled mini-aircraft– is racing headlong into drone technology. An article about the drones China is developing goes on to tell about the rest of the world’s drone rush. It
Happy Independence Day! The birthday of our nation would be a good time to contemplate that great text on church and state, Matthew 22:21, in which our Lord charges us to “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that
As we wrestle with the national debt and as Congress debates over whether to raise the debt limit or risk default, we should consider what the Constitution says about the issue. First, Congress does have the right to borrow money: ‘The Congress shall have power
In response to all of the discussion about “to ban or not to ban,” I think I will take the suggestion by Webmonk and others to delete certain comments that I find repetitive, tangential, or obnoxious. I will be constrained by time, how busy I
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