There's the prospect, if it is a prospect, that the kids"and not likely us"will face something extremely traumatic: the Singularity! This is the postulated point in the ...
We do not live in Lake Wobegon. In all areas of academic ability, half of the children are below average. This fact has implications for education and public policy, and yet it's ...
Rather as God cares about every sparrow that falls to earth, no crisis anywhere escapes the attention of the U.S. government. So it has been with the Russo-Georgian war. Words ...
Since the start of 2008, a new international sport has emerged: Yellow Peril-mongering. International politicians, commentators and activists have competed to see who can issue ...
Because U.S. political leaders are ignorant of history, don"t give a hoot about it, or both, Washington's post-9/11 Afghan adventure was based on a plan for occupation and ...
Someday I’d like to meet Monsieur Tourette, and ask him about his syndrome. Because over the years I’ve had close friends, colleagues, mentors, siblings and ...
It was the state, which came into existence in the late middle ages and early modern period, that created the political precondition for the spread of individual identity. It did ...
Every so often, someone in the Bush Administration actually makes a sensible point, though often not in the manner they intend. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, before ...
For many years Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a familiar presence in Hanover, New Hampshire. He had been arrested in 1945 and sentenced to eight years in prison after criticizing ...
The optimism of today's Chinese is not hard to understand. To be sure, China is still a poor country, with a per capita GDP only a ninth that of the U.S. Look back at your own ...
After Jesus Christ, Natan Sharansky is George Bush's favorite philosopher. In early 2005, around the time of his second inaugural, the president praised Sharansky"ex-prisoner ...
If "Gimme That Old Time Religion" isn"t Barack Obama's campaign song yet, it should be. After starting July by endorsing an Obamized version of George W. Bush's ...
And part of the picture is all you really see in Woods' analysis. He attributes the notion of sovereignty to an early modern advocate of royal absolutism. And perhaps he's right ...
We may be seeing the resurgence of what was thought to be an endangered species: the Southern white conservative Democrat. Travis Childers, a Democrat who won a congressional seat ...
There have always been hints that the worldview of "The X-Files" is far closer to paleoconservatism than is generally found in anything emanating from Hollywood. Sam Francis, a ...
Society has managed rather well without slavery, an institution that at one time was taken for granted by nearly everyone, and which many Christian thinkers thought could be ...
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