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Durable, disciplined liberty
It's hard to remember when
George Will was a serious political thinker and not a shill for the latest...
God refuses to be God without us
We asked God to say something definite and God,
getting personal, sent Jesus Christ. We were surprised.
Links? Links.
Here are some thing I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about.
Disrupted, by Julie Anderson Love
After her bleak diagnosis, Julie Anderson Love learned that hope has nothing to do
with passivity. She was, she writes, "the patient from
hell."
The case against Wall Street: Why the protesters are angry
The protesters sleeping in the cold do not claim that 99 percent of Americans agree with them. Their point is that the top 1 percent plays by different rules.
White House flubs Bible, like everyone else
The White House proved itself scripturally challenged recently when
Press Secretary Jay Carney said: "I believe the phrase from the Bible...
Antiabortion analogy is flawed but popular
Is legalized abortion akin to the Nazi Holocaust? The analogy is a
standard talking point among abortion opponents, and a new half-hour...
Savvy occupiers
Social ethicist Gary Dorrien talked to Century executive editor David Heim after writing his cover story on "the case against Wall Street."
Ben Dueholm in our pages and others'
In a Century article
published this week, Benjamin Dueholm explains why politicians of
Michele Bachmann's ilk do well in the swing states of the upper Midwest.
He starts with the fact that Bachmann and Garrison Keillor are from the
same small Minnesota town.
Dream House
Universal released Dream House without advance screenings, so critics weren't inclined to treat it seriously....