First Things, the magazine, has a fascinating article on conservative champion Russell Kirk, who would have turned 90 on October 19. Excerpt: The problem Kirk faced, along with most conservatives, was that the Enlightenment, with its universalizing equality, secularism, and blinkered rationality, was already destroying
I just got back from North Carolina, where I gave one of the annual Luther Lectures that several churches there organize. The topic was Vocation, and John Pless, David Adams, and Detlev Schultz were also on the docket. The latter is a professor at Concordia
Now there are votive candles that one can burn as a prayer to Saint Obama: I’m not saying Barack Obama intends this, but I think many Americans are actually devising a new religion around him as their savior. It’s a secular kind of salvation, yes,
In our search for silver linings to the economic clouds, consider Michele Catalano’s argument that our financial woes may return us to a nobler version of the storied “American dream.” Although the term was coined in 1931 by James Truslow Adams, who defined it as
Yale economist Jonathan Macey shows how the government bailout plan has contributed to the panic on Wall Street and to the crisis in the finance sector. The Treasury’s quick action immediately undercut all confidence in the free market and then put measures into effect that
British atheists are launching a campaign to put ads on buses. They will read “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life”. It strikes me as odd that atheists think believing in God is a cause of worrying and not enjoying life.
Though some polls show the race tightening, many liberals are expecting a Reaganesque landslide and fantasizing about what they accomplish with a huge House majority and a filibuster-proof Senate. Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter hails the new era of liberalism that is on the verge of being
Baylor is getting criticized for offering students $300 to re-take their SAT exams, with $1000 for improving their scores 50 points or more. The university, facing ridicule, has stopped the practice. See Baptist School ‘Goofed’ in Offering Perks for SAT Retakes. Baylor wants higher scores
There is so much more to Barack Obama’s tax plan than the soundbite version that everyone who makes less than a quarter million will get a tax break. First of all, the plan will give money to people who do not pay taxes. It also
From an AP report, San Francisco weighs decriminalizing prostitution: In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon walk the streets without fear of arrest. San Francisco would become the first
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