Given the ongoing economic recession in America, it should come as no surprise that the economy was far and away the leading issue for voters in the recent re-election of President Barack Obama. According to The Washington Post, an overwhelming 60 percent of voters said the economy was the biggest issue facing the [...]
I’m not sure how long I’ve been arguing that conservative evangelicals lost the culture war, but it’s been a while. Over time, I’ve realized that’s not exactly right; the culture war is much too complicated and entrenched to ever really be “over.” But we speak of it simply in terms of the religious right’s [...]
Students and faculty at The King’s College should be thrilled to be rid of Dinesh D’Souza. He was, at best, an expensive PR stunt who would have, I have no doubt, eventually compromised the college’s strong academics for some sort of right-wing hackery, probably a scheme involving profit. In [...]
I think my initial assessment of Rick Perry as a radical theoconservative was off the mark. Or perhaps it wasn’t wrong so much as misfocused: Perry clearly believes all of the insane things he said at his infamous prayer rally, but the diligent work of other journalists has convinced me that tearing [...]
A matter of hours after President Obama announced his proposal to reduce the federal deficit, which includes $2 in spending cuts to every $1 of new government revenue, his opponents were on television hailing the plan as the return of “class warfare.” Conservative evangelicals dutifully picked up the line, but gave it a slight twist: [...]
I found it fascinating to watch the rollout of Rick Perry’s campaign this week, and the reactions of his opponents, of his party, and of the opposing party. It’s going to be an exciting race. I hope you have enough going on in life to not be paying attention yet, but if you are:
—Perry [...]
I have a review at The Daily Beast of Fed Up!, Rick Perry’s policy book from last year. I argue that he seems to identify more with the anti-federalists, and the anti-federalist-placating bits of the federalists, than he does with actual federalism. You can check it out here if you feel inclined.
I have a new column at Patheos on Perry’s “prayerpalooza”:
Asked in 2002 how his faith influences his politics, Rick Perry replied, “I don’t think it does, particularly.” But at the massive prayer rally he hosted in Houston on Saturday, the sitting governor of Texas
In Salon, Michael Lind pushes back against the rise of British historian Niall Ferguson in the U.S., and views him as symptomatic of a decline in right-wing intellects:
Ferguson is the most prominent of a number of British conservative intellectuals and journalists who have found more sympathetic audiences in the U.S. than [...]
There’s something that’s bothered me for a while now about the way the lingo of nonpartisanship has taken over the evangelical discourse, which I for some reason am unable to stop being interested in. No matter where this lingo comes from, I think it’s a response to the same reality: partisanship is really, really uncool [...]
Eric Teetsel has responded to yesterday’s post in which I seconded David B. Hart’s distaste for Ayn Rand. Eric focuses particularly on my recent condemnations of Rep. Paul Ryan, and there’s a couple of things I want to say in response about Ryan, Rand’s influence on the GOP, [...]
Just when it is perhaps needed most, David B. Hart comes through with a vigorous evisceration of Ayn Rand:
Ayn Rand always provokes a rather extravagant reaction from me, and probably for purely ideological reasons. For instance, I like the Sermon on the Mount. She regarded its prescriptions as among the vilest [...]
Follow Us
Facebook
Twitter
- No public Twitter messages.
Advertisement
Tags
Abortion Albert Mohler Andrew Sullivan Atheism Barack Obama Bible Book Review Books Catholic Church Christian Christianity Christianity Today Christian Right Conservatives Dinesh D'Souza Evangelicalism Evangelicals Facebook Faith Feminism God History Jesus Mark Driscoll Marriage Marvin Olasky Media New Sincerity New York City New York Times Patheos Philosophy Politics Quote of the Day Religion Religion and Spirituality Rick Perry Rob Bell Ross Douthat Same-sex marriage Sarah Palin Sex Theology United States WomenArchives
