Despite the reactions generated by recent revelations about the sermons of Obama's pastor, I see no reason to change my comments. The current Republican-neoconservative attacks on ...
Will Western civilization survive the disappearance of Westerners? That’s what the secularized elites of the EU and the US are betting, and it’s the unacknowledged ...
The antiwar, pro-life Right--including Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, and others who've opposed the Iraq War--doesn"t fit the narrative that hawks and neocons have built over the ...
There was tension behind the scenes here in Rome throughout Holy Week, as Vatican security and Italian police tried to preempt a possible attack on Pope Benedict"and thousands ...
Kim Jung-Il’s dictatorial taste in cinema, cuisine, and above all public sculpture remains deeply mysterious, witness the fusion of folk culture and socialist realism in the ...
Did anyone else catch the unsettling comment made by Karl Rove on the O"Reilly show last night. When O"Reilly asked Bush's former grey eminence whether Obama had benefited ...
Whatever happened to David Horowitz—the ex-leftist -turned-neocon whose hysterical maunderings are practically emblematic of the species and who used to make quite a bit of ...
On Saturday, March 8, 2008, President George W. Bush vetoed a congressional bill that would have explicitly banned interrogation techniques like waterboarding. In doing so, Bush ...
This day, the most solemn in the Christian calendar, is an occasion to avoid any kind of frivolity or mirth. Which makes it a hard day for me to write about. The feast is ...
Revenge of the Mutterites Last week I spent five frenetic days at a conference on politics and religion held at Trinity Western University, outside of Vancouver, British ...
It’s hard to know how to feel about the fact that Sen. Obama’s, er, “racialist” background has finally emerged above the waterline—suggesting that ...
It’s always dangerous to let your view of history get stuck in a single moment. For the neocons, it’s always September 1938, with a weak Hitler bluffing his way into ...
Is the Surge working"really? Sure, it's working fine, just like my sister's car. I had to drop her off at the garage where they were looking over her Ford Probe. It"d been ...
On Sunday, I spoke at an event organized by a coalition of peace groups marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. It’s the kind of event I like doing: no fuss, ...
It is fitting that one of the signal events of what will likely become the second Bush recession has been the Federal Reserve's propping up of the Wall Street firm Bear Stearns. ...
The front page of the Globe and Mail in Vancouver, where I was lecturing last week, explained on March 12 that the "sex scandal" that had engulfed former Governor Eliot ...