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March 2008

March 27, 2008

Another big-name author turns to the right

First David Mamet, now Tom Stoppard, the British playwright, turns away in revulsion from 1960's-era...

March 25, 2008

The three candidates on the economy

The Washington Post, in a useful exercise, asked spokesmen for each of the three presidential...

March 25, 2008

CBS looks for those missing snipers

CBS dug through its files and did a story on what we blogged about yesterday,...

March 24, 2008

The case of the missing snipers

Hillary Clinton, touting her experience over Barack Obama, has been saying that President Clinton would...

March 19, 2008

Race in America

What struck me about the controversy over Rev. Jeremiah Wright's inflammatory anti-American and anti-White preaching...

March 17, 2008

Obama’s preacher

We posted questions some time ago about Trinity United Church of Christ, which Barack Obama...

March 14, 2008

More Shakespeare parallels

We've been Superdelegates as Hamlet The idea is that the Superdelegates are having trouble making...

March 13, 2008

Meet the Superdelegates

Here is a useful breakdown of each of the democratic Superdelegates, who they are and...

March 12, 2008

Born-again conservative

David Mamet is one of the few contemporary playwrights and screenwriters whose work, in my...

March 11, 2008

Secular liturgies

Who says people today aren't oriented to liturgies? Consider this article on New York Governor...

March 11, 2008

The fall of a governor

The governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, a democrat who made a name for himself...

March 11, 2008

If you let me win, you can be vice-president

The Clintons are offering to make Barack Obama Hillary's vice-presidential running mate. See Hillary and...

March 10, 2008

Culture Wars over or about to explode?

E. J. Dionne has a column arguing that religious influence goes in cycles and that,...

March 10, 2008

Obama’s strength and weakness

Barack Obama has been pursuing a brilliant strategy for the primaries, but it may hide...

March 07, 2008

A mulligan for Florida & Michigan Democrats?

Now it seems that the Democratic nominee for president of the United States will be...

March 06, 2008

Third parties?

I've heard many people dismayed by the major party presidential slate say that they would...

March 05, 2008

The Cult vs. the Machine

Hillary Clinton is still in this thing, having won Texas and Ohio. Meanwhile, John McCain...

March 05, 2008

The robotic chanting of a name

Thanks to my students Nathan Martin, David Carver, and Travis Jordan for their comments on...

March 04, 2008

O-ba-ma, O-ba-ma, O-ba-ma, O-ba-ma, O-ba-ma

Do you find this video as creepy, disturbing, and scary as I do? Parse its...

March 04, 2008

Feminists play the gender card

Feminists are incensed at opposition to Hillary Clinton, and especially to women who are supporting...

February 2008

February 29, 2008

Buckley’s advice to Christian activists

Christianity Today online has dusted off an interview with the recently-deceased William F. Buckley from...

February 28, 2008

Mark Steyn, satirist

Mark Steyn, the Canadian conservative, brings together insightful punditry and devastating humor. That is to...

February 28, 2008

The Death of William F. Buckley

William F. Buckley, the influential conservative writer, intellectual, and raconteur, is dead at 82. Go...

February 27, 2008

Obama vs. Guns

Barack Obama has a lot of things going for him, but once his positions get...

February 27, 2008

The possibility of an appearance

Michael Kinsley has written a hilarious take on the New York Times story about John...

February 26, 2008

More Clinton tactics

Hillary Clinton's people are circulating a picture of Barack Obama, on a trip to Kenya,...

February 25, 2008

Politics vs. Evangelism

This article on changes in the Religious Right is interesting in itself, saying how the...

February 25, 2008

The God Gap

Amy Sullivan is the nation editor for "Time Magazine." She is a liberal (naturally) and...

February 25, 2008

New York Times as gossip rag

Our nation's newspaper of record is getting slammed by its own watchdog for publishing without...

February 22, 2008

Trying to make a scandal?

This business with John McCain and a pretty lobbyist strikes me as low, low scandal...