I once was talking to my friend and mentor Steve Chandler when he said to me, “Have an average day!” Taken aback, I asked him what he meant. Isn’t the idea to have great days, even exceptional ones? (more…) Read more
I once was talking to my friend and mentor Steve Chandler when he said to me, “Have an average day!” Taken aback, I asked him what he meant. Isn’t the idea to have great days, even exceptional ones? (more…) Read more
Okay, let’s be serious here. We all know their voices, faces, books and persuasions. They have enormous followings via all sorts of media–radio, television, literature, speaking tours. They exert an enviable amount of influence on public opinion and elections that politicians and professors just don’t hold. Coulter, Hannity, Ingram, Frankin, O’Reilly…they are the political pundits. I admit, I like talking heads. I’m curious to know from our readers and contributors: Which political pundits, if any, do you particularly enjoy and... Read more
This is the situation in which we find ourselves today: as young persons begin to ask critical questions about what flourishing and well-being consist in, about what goods make up an excellent life, about what ways-of-acting and different kinds of structural support are necessary to achieve those goods, they are already, whether they are aware of this or not, largely limited and even determined by modes of thinking and kinds of habit that elucidate a flat perspective of human flourishing,... Read more
Gerald Bradley, a law professor at my alma mater, has an article out today giving the pro-life case for a McCain presidency: Of the remaining pro-life Republicans, none can match McCain’s record of opposing abortion. He has served in Congress for 24 years, and cast a lot of votes on abortion legislation during that time. His record is not merely exemplary — it is perfect. McCain’s votes on abortion really could not be better. A campaign advertisement in South Carolina... Read more
Some books inspire movies. The book is so good, so important, that it must be made into a film. Some books are written with the hope that it will be turned into a movie. Some books, no matter how good, should never be a movie. Yet sometimes, some scriptwriter or director thinks they can do it; they just need to change the book enough that whatever makes it unfilmable gets edited out and replaced with new ideas. Most of the... Read more
Finally, I am speaking as a political conservative to political conservatives. I don’t pretend to make a case to Catholics of a statist bent, to those who — whether or not they think their faith requires it — shade to the left on welfare policy, immigration, national defense, or taxation, or to those who seek solutions to the nation’s ills primarily in coercion by the political class rather than meritorious private enterprise. Their best choice is someone else.- Todd Aglialoro,... Read more
From Reuters/CommonDreams.org: Cluster bombs, which nearly 100 countries are seeking to ban, should not be considered bad as long as states involved in conflicts use them responsibly, a senior United States official said on Wednesday. The official, who declined to be identified, also told a background briefing that Washington was planning to create a “quick reaction force”, or QRF, to handle threats to civilians from remnants of war, like cluster bombs. The official’s remarks, which could not be quoted directly,... Read more
And God said, “Let there be light.” And there was light. – Genesis 1:3 The awesome majesty and power of God can be seen in this: that not only is His word law, His word is reality. He says “let there be light” and simply by saying this, there is light. He says “let the earth bring forth living creatures” and it does. Reality itself is in utter conformity to His will, and is molded to His thought. Human beings... Read more
This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post on big history and Christianity. From the point of view of “big history” the earth had been through a climate change rollercoaster in its 4.6 billion years of life. We can say that the average temperature rose dramatically between 55 and 50 million years ago, after the dinosaurs vanished. It cooled again 35 million years ago, and warmed again about 12 million years ago, the warmest it had been in 35 million years. Then... Read more
If you don’t read anything else today, please read this excellent post by my RedState co-blogger, Leon H. Wolf, regarding the GOP establishment’s disdain for Southern Evangelicals. Read more
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