Even if it were true that “victory” in the culture wars can be measured by graphs of public opinion, that picture is decidedly mixed and more dynamic than the “New York Times” lets on. Liberals may have tipped the balance on some measures, but they’ve by no means “won.” http://eppc.org/publications/the-culture-wars-have-we-lost/ Read more

Last week a retired professor, Robert Boyd, attacked Zionism in our local newspaper. His argument has all the virtues of a good argument except truth. (more…) Read more

 Robert P. George Amid reports of “earthquakes” and “seismic” shifts, we ought to remember the Catholic Church’s moral teachings in their wholeness, which have not shifted. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/10/13925/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&utm_campaign=5641fe9fa5-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-5641fe9fa5-84107317   Read more

Mounting evidence suggests that basic assumptions about climate change are mistaken: The numbers don’t add up. http://online.wsj.com/articles/judith-curry-the-global-warming-statistical-meltdown-1412901060   Read more

The wider public has not noticed, but extraordinary things are happening in the worlds of Jewish and Christian theology. (more…) Read more

David French In the New York Times, a Cal State lawyer comically declared, “Our mission is education, not exclusivity.” Oh really? Cal State itself discriminates on the basis of class, geography, intelligence, athletic ability, and gender. And that’s just in its admissions and athletic programs. Its fraternities and sororities discriminate on the basis of gender, class, intelligence, appearance, family status, and a host of less-tangible characteristics. Universities are shot-through with discrimination at every level, typically also adding race discrimination to the... Read more

CC Pecknold We need to face up to the growing discord between Catholic Christianity and the new world liberalism that is building in America.What is to be done about this discord? Consider the Dominican Option. When I see them in the white habits at prayer, or giving lectures, or playing guitars and banjos on the subway, I have a plausible image of a “contrast society” that is very much engaged with the world—an evangelistic witness which is joyful, intellectually serious,... Read more

Matthew Franck Can’t those who don’t wish it for themselves—like those who do not wish to enter same-sex marriages—just go on their merry way, living and letting live? No, they can’t. “For starters, [polygamy] would render marriage porous as a matter of principle. It would . . . turn every married person into an eligible bachelor or bachelorette.” http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/10/13869/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&utm_campaign=69b2db44b2-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-69b2db44b2-84107317 Read more

Iran will in all likelihood soon execute Ayatollah Boroujerdi to show the U.S. and the international community — so eager to allow it a nuclear capability — that no matter what it does, there will not be even the slightest protest from the West. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4759/boroujerdi-execution Read more

The Turkish head of the physics department at Bilecik University, who proposed to revive the Nazi death camps, a month later was awarded a fund to sponsor his research from Turkey’s state scientific institute. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4756/the-few-brave-men-of-turkey     Read more