…states, like Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, that had not gone for a Republican presidential candidate since Reconstruction. They resisted putting Catholicism and Judaism alongside Evangelical Protestantism, Liberal Protestantism,…
…Nicene Creed, or something like that [how do you propose to screen Muslims out? Trump himself couldn’t honestly swear on the Nicene Creed any more than any Muslim]. Ross Douthat…
…what Keynes was about, though my understanding was and is that Keynes wanted government surpluses in times of prosperity. The problem with that is political: any volunteers for a program…
…Life, provides a counterbalance as to how as a Christian witness we need to be concerned about ‘communities’ as well as individuals, and making ‘communities’ prosper too. The CCDA idea…
A lot of people, especially families with children, would prefer a single-family home. Of course they would, and I’m not going to find fault with that lifestyle as long as…
…in his project Whatever Happened to the Human Race, recruiting evangelical Protestants to issues that they had previously tended to regard as Roman Catholic obsessions. The Religious Right had a…
…Edsall has discussed this in a column in the New York Times. Now Professor Haidt has also cooperated with Greg Lukianoff by co-writing an essay provocatively called ‘The Coddling of…
…justices appointed by Nixon. Catholics led the ‘pro-life’ movement in those days, and it was a bipartisan movement; it took the Schaeffers, with their video series Whatever Happened to the…
…forced to flee. Eventually, he stands alone, promising to cut through the paralysis of democratic incoherence….. And as the people thrill to him as a kind of solution, a democracy…
…Criminal penalties, unless one is executed or subject to ‘life imprisonment without possibility of parole’ are finite [‘life imprisonment without possibility of parole’ is considered more Christianly humane nowadays, for…