Was Thomas Jefferson a Christian?
While U.S. minister to France, 1785-1789, Jefferson met with the Muslim ambassador from Tripoli to negotiate freeing hundreds of captured U.S. sailors held in dungeons. Jefferson was secretary of state...
View ArticleRule Britannia
Today’s parallel with feudal 1215 is the absolute dominance of a “collective monarchy”, combining the power not merely of the Westminster state but also of the corporate and financial institutions and...
View ArticleRebellion of America brought judgment on America
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.” – John 10:10 I was humored this week with the “scary” interview the state-controlled media put out on terror suspect Christopher Cornell, also...
View ArticleThere’s No Such Thing as Free Will
For centuries, philosophers and theologians have almost unanimously held that civilization as we know it depends on a widespread belief in free will—and that losing this belief could be calamitous. Our...
View ArticleLions Under the Bureaucracy: Defending Judicial Deference to the...
Federalist Society Review, Volume 18 A Review of: Law's Abnegation: From Law's Empire to the Administrative State, by Adrian Vermeule Note from the Editor:This book review discusses and critiques...
View ArticleBook Review: Law’s Abnegation: From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State...
(Source: The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies) Federalist Society Review, Volume 18 Note from the Editor:This book review discusses and critiques Adrian Vermeule's new book about...
View ArticleNeil Gorsuch’s “natural law” philosophy is a long way from Justice Scalia’s...
When Antonin Scalia’s death was announced, Neil Gorsuch was on the ski slope. Checking his phone halfway down the hill, tears welled up as he read the news, he has said. According to Gorsuch, who is...
View ArticleThe Evolution Of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs And The Bad Boy Family Through...
May 20 2016, 2:35 AM ET Share this article: The launch of VIBE was the definitive introduction of the power of Hip-Hop and culture to move the crowd. Before the Internet, before email, before social...
View Article'There's Enough Time to Change Everything'
Last month, David Galernter, the pioneering Yale University computer scientist, met with Donald Trump to discuss the possibility of joining the White House staff. An article about the meeting in the...
View ArticleUnderstanding Tyranny and Terror: From the French Revolution to Modern...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) While tyranny has existed in all eras, modern democracies now face a millenarian version that seeks to impose by revolutionary force a monolithic collective in which...
View ArticleEvery 25 Seconds
Summary Neal Scott may die in prison. A 49-year-old Black man from New Orleans, Neal had cycled in and out of prison for drug possession over a number of years. He said he was never offered treatment...
View ArticleIn the Middle of an Electoral Revolution, Scalia Leaves the Plutocracy One...
The salutary rule of private life that one should not speak poorly of the recently departed does not properly apply to public persons who we know only through their public deeds. When they choose to...
View ArticleEgyptian Artist Wael Shawky on Pulling the Strings of Crusade and Jihad at...
The films of Wael Shawky's Cabaret Crusades are on view at MoMA PS1 through August 31, along with installations of selected sketches, sets and marionettes that the artist used throughout filming. For...
View ArticleFangruida speeches
World famous celebrity Christmas and New Year Speeches (24,Dec,2012,Geneva) Fangruida,ruida-fang Dear sirs, ladies and friends: Adams was already close to the New Year , coincides with Christmas , the...
View ArticleAuthors and critics select their best books of the year
WELCOME to our annual Books of the Year, in which writers and critics share their favourite reads of 2014. As always, I did not restrict the contributors to books published this year, though most of...
View Article#TBT: Inhofe Delivers 2003 Floor Speech Predicting the Inevitable Failure of...
(Source: US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works) #TBT: Inhofe Delivers 2003 Floor Speech Predicting the Inevitable Failure of the Kyoto Protocol. WASHINGTON - In 2003, U.S. Sen Jim Inhofe...
View ArticleNew Atheism, Worse Than You Think
In the years since the so-called “New Atheism” burst onto the scene in the mid 2000s, the movement has not lacked for critics among nonbelievers and agnostics. Until recently, however, few of them...
View ArticleI read Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's book. It's very revealing.
Neil Gorsuch has not publicly stated whether or not he thinks Roe v. Wade was correctly decided. But if you read his one published book, The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, his position on...
View ArticleWael Shawky On Pulling the Strings of Crusade and Jihad at MoMA PS1
The films of Wael Shawky's Cabaret Crusades are on view at MoMA PS1 until August 31, along with installations of selected sketches, sets and marionettes that the artist used throughout filming. For...
View ArticleA Failure of Christian Ethics
At the heart of the crisis of the public presence of Christians in our tormented world has been their inability to offer any consistent and penetrating ethical critique of political subjugation,...
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