Lost Continent
While 44 per cent of Americans attend a place of worship once a week"and this is mostly a Christian place of worship"only 15 per cent of Europeans do so"and many of them go to a mosque instead of a church. The ...
While 44 per cent of Americans attend a place of worship once a week"and this is mostly a Christian place of worship"only 15 per cent of Europeans do so"and many of them go to a mosque instead of a church. The ...
Under consideration: Michael Pollan, The Omnivor's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Penguin (2006), 464 pages; and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Penguin (2008), 256 pages. A few weeks ago I ...
On a number of literally life and death issues, American conservatives and Catholics stand in a firm alliance. On other subjects, these groups pull in different directions"and this tension causes suspicion, irritation, ...
Peggy Noonan was a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and is a graceful essayist and good Catholic lady who happens to be a political conservative. I haven’t seen her in years but sometimes we exchange emails. She has written a ...
As president, Barack Obama "would reject the Bush Doctrine of preemption and regime change and replace it with a doctrine of prevention and cooperation and, ladies and gentlemen, this is the biggest ticket item that we ...
Two weeks after the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., John McCain and Sarah Palin were striding forward toward victory. They had erased the eight-point lead Barack Obama had opened up in Denver and watched as one ...
Of all the candidates for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, only one took the time to address the 35th-annual March for Life on Jan. 22, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. On the day of the march, this candidate, Texas ...
Obama's campaign would have us believe that he's the anti-corporate candidate, a populist "man of the people" whose race for the White House is being funded by tens and twenties sent in by ordinary folks who can"t wait ...
Having seen "American Carol" on the basis of James Hirsen's glowing review on Newsmax I am still reacting to this flick's neoconservative message with a queasy stomach. From my exposure to this movie that David Zucker ...
The Two Minutes of Hate began in Ballston before the movie even began, when the previews of Oliver Stone's W. hit the screen. My brief speculation as to the political leanings of the crowd dissipated, as the Republican ...
Okay, I tried to watch it. Tried really, really hard. I made a phone date with my long-distance love to view the debate “together.” I arranged my schedule around it. I even—and let me emphasize ...
Architecture is not politics, but it's relevant to politics because we create our physical environment in the image of what we believe about the world generally. We need to make sense of our surroundings. If they're too much ...
I was going to live-blog the debate, but it was so boring that I fell asleep before I could post it on Takimag. In any case, this was supposedly a debate about foreign policy, but more than half of it was taken up with the ...
When the Soviet Union collapsed, it seemed for 20 minutes or so that America might revert from being a crusade back into a country. For 50 years, we’d served as the arsenal of democracy, its moneybags, its poolhall ...