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July 2024

July 16, 2024

Why Is Trump So Hated–and Beloved?

Why do conservatives like Donald Trump so much, and why do liberals despise him so...

July 15, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 7/15/24

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Also, Republicans have their convention and Generation Z takes...

July 12, 2024

Luxury Feminism

The Somali-Dutch-American critic of radical Islam, the ex-New Atheist, Christian convert Ayaan Hirsi Ali shows...

July 12, 2024

DISCUSSION: Cutting Off Their Own Heads

Jeffrey Blehar tells a story from ancient China: "Yue’s most devoted warriors would march forward...

July 11, 2024

Technocratic Government

The most important question about the evident incapacity of President Biden is not how this...

July 10, 2024

Solzhenitsyn’s Conversion

The Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" exposed the evils of Soviet Communism by...

July 09, 2024

No, We Don’t Now Have a King

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that presidents have an immunity from prosecution in carrying out...

July 08, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 7/8/24

The Democrats' conundrum--and a way out. The future of marriage: different spouses for sex, companionship, money,...

July 05, 2024

Aborting the Elderly vs. Treasuring Them

Our society is anti-life both at its very beginning and at its very end. "Euthanasia,"...

July 05, 2024

DISCUSSION: Lists about America

Vahaken Mouradian has written a post entitled "Why I've Fallen for America" consisting simply of...

July 04, 2024

America vs. Political Panic

If you listen to our politicians from both sides, you would think that America is...

July 03, 2024

The Characteristics of Totalitarianism

Political scientists Carl Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinski (who would later become President Jimmy Carter's National Security...

July 02, 2024

Cold War II–and We Are the Soviets

Niall Ferguson has been arguing that a new cold war is emerging, with the alliance...

July 01, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 7/1/24

The great debate. The Supremes take down the administrative state. And the $100 million campaign...

June 2024

June 28, 2024

Agatha Christie and the Mystery of Mysteries

There is a connection between the great mystery writer Agatha Christie, controversies among Catholics about...

June 28, 2024

DISCUSSION: From Bitter to Sweet

Randy Alcorn points out that virtually all of the ingredients of a chocolate cake taste...

June 27, 2024

The Constitution Is About Managing Disagreements

As a reaction to our political polarization and associated dysfunctions, all sides are expressing a...

June 26, 2024

What Does “Establishment of Religion” Actually Mean?

Louisiana's law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms is designed to cause...

June 25, 2024

A Policy Both the Left and the Right Are Pushing

Our current political climate is highly polarized, with the left and the right not being...

June 24, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 6/24/24

U.S. Navy is engaged in its most intense combat since World War II. Biden kills...

June 21, 2024

On the Death of My Mother

My mother died a few weeks ago. She was 93, had Alzheimer's, was ready to...

June 21, 2024

DISCUSS: When Was America at Its Best?

Historians can debate when America was at its best. Was it in the era of...

June 20, 2024

Repairer of the Dung Gate

I would like to commend to you as a Biblical patron saint of vocation Malchijah...

June 19, 2024

The Loss of Language, Culture, & Relationships

Language is what makes culture and all human relationships possible. We are seeing a broad...

June 18, 2024

The Totalitarian Impulse

When we read about the brutality of totalitarian regimes--the Nazis, the Soviets, the North Koreans--we...

June 17, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 6/17/24

Baptists consider adopting the Nicene Creed. Opinions are changing on transgenderism. And taking your parents...

June 14, 2024

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Stages of Subversion

Aayan Hirsi Ali draws on the work of a KGB defector who testified about Soviet...

June 14, 2024

DISCUSS: Double Life

Nearly half of Generation Z and over a quarter of internet users as a whole...

June 13, 2024

New Atheist Richard Dawkins Debates Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In a debate with her New Atheist mentor Richard Dawkins, ex-Muslim, ex-atheist, new Christian convert...

June 12, 2024

Degrowth Communism

According to Kohei Saito, capitalism creates economic growth, which puts ever-more carbon into the atmosphere. ...