The New Moral Majority?
Young evangelicals shift left, change focus.
In Iraq, Messy is Better
A close election indicates a strengthening democratic process Iraq’s parliamentary elections in March prompted a 62 percent voter turnout, with...
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Thank You John Mayer
For what is probably my second favorite takedown of The Huffington Post, after last year’s TNR cover story by Isaac Chotiner. (The Atlantic’s Ray Gustini...
More on the Mosque: Religious Freedom is Important, But…
Proposed site of an Islamic community center One non-bigoted case against the erroneously-named “Ground Zero mosque” seems to go something like this: “Religious...
Good Ross and Bad Ross Square Off In New York Times
I’m starting to think that Ross Douthat may have a split personality disorder. As I wrote a few weeks ago, Douthat has “a wonderful way of casually saying...
ADL Disappoints on “Ground Zero Mosque” Issue
The manufactured controversy over what has ludicrously come to be called the “Ground Zero Mosque” has a lot of depressing aspects. But easily the most...
Scary News of the Day
From the Economist via Bloomberg, the most worrisome news I read today. The gist of the story: China’s banking regulator told lenders last month to conduct a new...
ACE Forum: Class-Based Affirmative Action
Why do debates about affirmative action always come down to who should go to Harvard? The Harvard Political Review has joined with other college political publications...
Breitbart/Sherrod: Sound and Fury
The Breitbart/Sherrod saga feels like so much political drama. It is a kind of spectacle custom-made for Politico reporters and political junkies — mildly...
Are payday loans like unprotected sex?
Sometimes you read a Tyler Cowen post and you think to yourself, simply: Did he really just say that? Here’s Cowen on payday loans and unprotected...
Joel Pollak Bravely Confronts Tyranny
Recent Harvard Law graduate Joel Pollak, running for Congress against Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), has invoked Steve Biko, the martyred South African anti-apartheid activist,...
Democrats Tax Smoking and Tanning, Poor Hardest Hit
This post was originally published on the blog of THE WEEKLY STANDARD. In their desperation to cut losses in the 2010 midterms, Democrats are relying ever more heavily...
Current Issue: Summer 2010
Religion in America
- Is Godless Great? A New Heyday for American Secularism
The American Way of Faith Compromise, innovation, and tradition
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