The moon is full, reflecting tonight off the forest of skyscrapers which is Manhattan. The second act of a quadrennial dance — the 2004 Republican National Convention — plays out across the street in Madison Square Garden. And as the lights blare, the horns sound, the throngs pulsate in the night, I am struck by [...]
Faith and Culture
On the eve of this year’s Democratic Convention, the Kerry campaign supposedly laid down a simple command: Everyone behave. That meant two things: No extreme displays of public liberalism and no insanely out-of-control Bush bashing. Whether Democrats obeyed is a matter of opinion. Bush bashing did continue, though stopping short of calling the President a [...]
“If the Senator can find in Title VII…any language… that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color…I will start eating the pages….” So said Hubert Humphrey as the US Senate prepared to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act, whose 40th anniversary is July 2. Humphrey was [...]
“I can’t presume to know exactly what my uncle would say about the current debate over school vouchers and choice, but I know the principles he taught. . . . [A]ll Americans should want the public schools to be the very best they can be, but we must make it possible for all people to [...]
“I am beseiged. The enemy has demanded surrender at discretion…I call on you in the name of liberty, of patriotism, and everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid…If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what [...]
Some folks, it seems, just never learn. Especially doom-and-gloomers. In 1980, the late economist Julian Simon made a bet with Paul Ehrlich, author of the best-selling 1968 book, The Population Bomb. The bet concerned commodity prices and was intended to illustrate a point. Simon wagered prices would fall; Ehrlich said they would rise. Both men agreed that higher [...]
It’s been a bad year for Faye Wattleton. And she has her own extremism to thank for it. On November 5, President Bush signed into law what Bill Clinton had vetoed repeatedly — a ban on partial-birth abortion. It had no trouble passing both houses of Congress, no threatened Democrat filibusters: in fact, even Clinton’s [...]
You would have never heard of Karl Marx had it not been for V.I. Lenin. Marx was neither terribly successful nor terribly important in his own right, and had it not been for a revolution carried out three decades after his death, he would be a footnote at best. But on this May Day, the [...]
Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, Americans gathered this morning on the National Mall to remember the dead. But this year, they also came to rally the living, because the hope of victory hangs palpably in the air. The past two years have been good ones for the pro-lifers. George Walker Bush speaks with conviction of [...]
Ask Christians today where they stand in the Republican Party, and many of them will tell you a tale of woe. The Christian Coalition was a flash in the pan, some say: it sold them out and disappeared. A few talk of bolting to a third party, although the trickle out to those has reversed [...]
People have strong feelings about the idea of Christian culture. They have even stronger ones about Christian politics. Few of those feelings are good. This is understandable, not least because the left is good at what we are not, specifically, selling their message. The far left comprises only a tiny percentage of America’s population; what’s [...]
Every so often, someone decides that the world is too corrupt to reform. And they start a political party. Sometimes this makes sense. More often, though, it’s just foolishness, and bad stewardship to boot. And for Christians today, that’s exactly where things stand. Third party advocates will sputter and fume at this. They’ll talk about [...]
Let us start at the start: I am a Southerner. I am proud of my heritage. I am glad we celebrate Robert E. Lee’s birthday. As an attorney and a student of history, it is my professional opinion not only that states may secede, but that the Constitution would never have been ratified had it [...]
So was September 11th God’s judgment on America or not? It’s a good question. In the immediate aftermath of the horrors of that day, Christian commentators fell all over themselves to join Bill Clinton in pronouncing just that. And in the shock of the moment, it certainly seemed right: America’s sins are many, and repentance [...]
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