Theology That Bites Back
So I have been watching the Trump presidency for a while now . . . well, actually it has had my attention the entire time. I have come to some tentative conclusions which, ahem, I would I would like to share with you. But let me get some preliminary things out of the way. I …
What we have here with the Anthem shenanigans is what educators like to call a “teachable moment.” This is what it looks like when a country has a meltdown identity crisis. What America is dealing with (or, more accurately, not dealing with) is layer upon layer of seething cross-currents of magma-like confusions. My contribution to …
I was reminded yesterday of just how much I hate communism—not to mention all the forms of communism masquerading under other auspices. And in speaking of those who seek to provide those other auspices, I am thinking of that sort of person who just a few years ago was saying something like “let’s try it …
Introduction: Your commies come in two basic categories. One kind of Marxism emphasized economics, class and revolution while the other emphasized culture, slow degradation and the promotion of rot. The former was urged and fomented by Lenin, while the latter was urged by men like Gramsci, who argued for a “long march through the institutions.” …
There is a difference, and not a small one either, between answering an argument and responding to a tantrum. When you try to make the tantrum stop through appeasement, all you are actually doing is purchasing the next tantrum. “A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: For if thou deliver him, yet thou must …
Time for a few more timely words on the goulash that is the Trump administration. I have to say frankly that I detest some of the ingredients, and the methods of the hash slinger in the back of this roadside greasy eating utensil are frequently open to question, and yet on the other hand I …
So if I may, I would like to explain the basic problems with asset forfeiture in simple and straightforward terms. In their opposition to it, the editors at National Review said, “Asset forfeiture is a constitutionally questionable practice,” and while it was good to see them calling for Jeff Sessions to get a hold of …
So let me say at the front end that Jonah Goldberg is my favorite contemporary political writer. He is vivid, funny, and almost always on point. He is part of the conservative firmament, and yet does not display some of the irritating characteristics on regular display from the kept conservatives, from the kennel-fed conservatives, from …
So what happens when you take a ruling class as wicked and as corrupt as ours is, and you insist that they obsess over what might be called “appearance ethics”? You get hypocrisy on stilts, that’s what happens. In the post-Watergate era, the nation became consumed with the appearance of impropriety. And while it is …
The recent shooting of Rep. Scalise has brought the old complaint about double standards to the surface again. Absolutely everyone knows that if the shooter had been a Tea Party guy, and if the baseball team in question had been the Democrats, the pieces would still be falling out of the sky. Something really is …
