The Calvinist International
Conor Friedersdorf uses the occasion of Arrested Development‘s renewal to offer some very serious reflections on the War on Terror and the current state of American politics. Here are a few: This is how desperate War on Terror critics are. Conflicted words from a man with a history of breaking his, and that man’s apparent […]
While we don’t typically like to weigh in with explicitly partisan commentary, since doing so too often distracts from the more important issue of philosophical and theological principles, this description of the Obama administration from Ross Douthat seemed fairly accurate and helpful for future dialog: Obama has governed as a business-friendly social democrat and an […]
Writing over at The American Conservative, Daniel McCarthy points out that, strictly speaking, all of the new radical ideas in American politics have come from the right:
The crazier ranks of the American Left and Right converge in several ways. The bad habit of namecalling their opponents Nazis, with no real reason, is one of them (only the Right uses “Communist” as a witch charge, but both use “Nazi”). George Bush II isn’t a Nazi, and neither is President Obama, who is […]
Dear Eleutheria, It’s good that you have the questions you do about voting. It really is an important discussion. For whom or for what should we vote is the obvious question, but whether we should we vote at all is a less obvious one, and yet I think it must be answered before we can […]
We believe it is of pressing importance to completely deconstruct the mentally stunting and politically disabling “conservative/liberal” dichotomy of American mainstream media rhetoric. Americans are already doing this for themselves, in independent forums, a very happy development. Citizens are seeing through the fake difference between the two parties, and are even beginning to consider what […]
Jefferson was inaugurated the third president of the United States on March 4, 1801, following one of the most bitterly contested presidential elections in American history. His religion, or the alleged lack thereof, emerged as a critical issue in the campaign. The Federalists vilified him as an unreformed Jacobin, libertine, and atheist. The campaign rhetoric […]