Memorializing Leviathan
Candy flies through the air. Flags flutter from lamp-posts, bunting festoons every porch. Veterans of America's various imperial wars wave from their cars....
Opinion
Tips for the Republican Voter
As the presidential campaign for 2012 gets under way, conservatives, libertarians, and others typically disposed to vote for Republican candidates would do themselves...
Read more
Seductive Beliefs
One of the painfully revealing episodes in Barack Obama's book Dreams From My Father describes his early experience listening to a sermon by...
Read more
Congress Lets Obama Ignore War Powers Act in Libya
By all means let us continue to remember and honor our war dead, as many (though too few) did yesterday in observance of...
Read more
Murder, Tulips, and Taxes
Last week, we took the midnight train to Chicago. It's an easy ride, with a bedroom both ways — except I get the...
Read more
The Neoconservative Philosophy
Although it had been in circulation for decades, it was only during the tenure of our last President that the term “neoconservatism” really...
Read more
Homeschoolers Win High-school Mock Trial Championship
We already know of Patrick Henry College’s superb homeschooled debating team, which won against prestigious Oxford University in December 2004. Its students have...
Read more
Desexing Children: The Acceptable Abuse
“We've decided not to share Storm's sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up...
Read more
A Memorial Day Resolution: Add Fewer Graves
Another Memorial Day has arrived and I again have it in mind to finally get to the end of a book I have...
Read more
Review of Kung Fu Panda 2
Kung Fu Panda 2 showcases Po the Panda living out his dream as China’s Dragon Warrior. Kung Fu seems to come much easier...
Read more
Are Our Politicians Stupid or Evil?
That man is a fallen creature has never been more clearly demonstrated than by the behavior of our elected politicians in Washington. Most...
Read more
What’s Really in Those Teen Magazines? (Hint: Nothing Remotely Romantic)
There’s a really dirty little secret about the category of literature known as “women’s fashion magazines”: They are aimed at pre-teens, teenagers, and...
Read more
Congress Runs to the Aid of “Massa Gummint”
The administration of Barack O'Bomber has not been a screaming success thus far, as just about any Republican will be happy to tell...
Read more
Pirates of the Caribbean 4 Deals with Christian Themes
In its fourth installment of the highly acclaimed Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides deals with powerful...
Read more
Christianity and Religious Freedom: On a Candlestick or Under a Bushel?
Nowadays, in order to justify each and every sin under the sun, each and every assault upon the moral fiber of our family,community,...
Read more