The term “Greenhouse effect” is primarily used by the environmentalist movement as an explanation for global warming, but in 1992 Judge Laurence Silberman appropriated the term and in a clever play on words linked it to Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered the Supreme Court at the New York Times for more than 40 years. Continue Reading...
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August 28, 2024
Invisible Logic: Boy, Do I Have a Conspiracy Theory for You
At page 99 of their substance-free investigation into the effects of the doctrine they call “neoliberalism,” George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison start talking about “conspiracy fictions,” which is what they prefer to call conspiracy theories. Continue Reading...
August 27, 2024
The Regime, or How Not to Do a Dark Political Comedy
Dark political comedy is an underrated genre, as it enables us to see both the horror and the humor in a given political situation. Politicians often behave in ridiculous ways, but because of their incredible power, their actions have serious real-world consequences. Continue Reading...
August 23, 2024
Three Cheers for Color-Blindness
Until the philosophy which holds one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war, me say war.
—Bob Marley, “War”
In his compelling new treatise on race, The Virtue of Color-Blindness, Andre Archie laments that no one has made the “conservative case for the virtue of American color-blind principles in a manner that addresses our present turmoil.” Continue Reading...
August 22, 2024
Kamala Harris’ Economic Policies Can’t Keep Her Promises
In a campaign speech in North Carolina last Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris detailed her plan for “creating opportunities for the middle class that advance their economic security, stability, and dignity.” Continue Reading...
August 21, 2024
European Discontent: Immigration and National Identity
Recently, I toured a notable American cathedral that, as a parish, had been founded by pre–Revolutionary War French immigrants. When our group came to a panel that included images of four martyrs who had evangelized different European peoples, our docent told us the story of St. Continue Reading...
August 20, 2024
Why I Slept on the Streets for a Year
Poverty has always been part of my life. First, in my own family: we were considerably poor, and I spent my entire childhood surrounded by poverty. Over the years, while pastoring a church and training new pastors at seminary, I became involved in relief projects for those who were even poorer than I was. Continue Reading...
August 15, 2024
No, Socialism Is Not Neighborliness
Незнакомые смотрят волками,
И один из них, может быть, я.
—Борис Гребенщиков
Strangers glare like wolves,
And I might be one of them.
—Boris Grebenshikov
The Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz entered the national scene with a passive-aggressive endorsement of government-run economic activity. Continue Reading...
August 14, 2024
Money, Power, and Evangelical Churches
Megan Basham’s new book, Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda, continues to create a stir. In the weeks since publication, it has catapulted to No. Continue Reading...
August 13, 2024
A Revolution Captured on Canvas
In John Adams’ estimation, the American Revolution began with an argument in a back room in Boston. “Who of your profession will undertake to paint a Debate or an Argument?” the former president asked of the artist John Trumbull in a letter in 1817. Continue Reading...