If you’ve read The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams, you’ll immediately recognise what happened to the Europeans last month. … Europe’s summer of submission
John Brennan Gets His Comeuppance
And not a moment too soon: The rise and fall of John Brennan has the makings of an all-too-familiar Beltway tragedy. People do not lose their idealism in this city in grand moments of corruption. It starts with small lies that steadily reduce your resistance until the biggest lies become happenstance. It can create a …
Why the South is winning
Borrowing the North’s old playbookWhy the South is winning
Epstein and Maxwell Should Have Had It This Good
As the Marquis de Sade (yes, that Marquis de Sade) had it at the Bastille before he was removed shortly before it was stormed and demolished. From Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution: If ever there was a justification for the Bastille, it was the Marquis de Sade. But if the crimes …
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Why Israel had no choice—Unherd
One person is responsible for Israel’s attack on Iran: Rafael Mariano Grossi, the Argentine director general of the International Atomic Energy … Why Israel had no choice
Leaving Old Ivy Behind for Kudzu (And Mesquite, and Palm Trees, and…)
I have to slap myself to believe I'm reading this: Yet while legacy universities dominate headlines, a transformation is taking place elsewhere, and it deserves more attention. Students are voting with their feet, abandoning the “colds and scolds” of the Northeast for more favorable climates—both intellectual and meteorological. This shift has extended to both public …
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The Episcopal Church is Unable, as Usual, to See the Beam in Its Own Eye
Their Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe repeats history: Since January, the previously bipartisan U.S. Refugee Admissions Program in which we participate has essentially shut down. Virtually no new refugees have arrived, hundreds of staff in resettlement agencies around the country have been laid off, and funding for resettling refugees who have already arrived has been uncertain. …
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A Second Look at Lying and the Ethics of the New Christian Right–North American Anglican, with Commentary
https://northamanglican.com/a-second-look-at-lying-and-the-ethics-of-the-new-christian-right/ The response to Ben Crenshaw's bold statement strikes me as overcomplicated, I have a few thoughts on this issue. It's one thing to say lying is a sin, but to say that lying has no eternal consequences--the ultimate criterion--undercuts the sinfulness of lying. That's built into a number of theologies floating around today. I've …
A Few Observations About Engineering Programs as a “Left/Right” Issue
I've gotten a whiff of a sentiment about the engineering program currently being developed (full disclosure, I'm a participant in that process) at Lee University. I understand that some are of the opinion that it's being brought into the university as a way of moving things to the left. Since I came into Lee in …
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Francis Collins Calls it Quits
It's done: Late last week, Christian geneticist Francis Collins resigned abruptly as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). On Wednesday this week, the U.S. Senate held a confirmation hearing for a new NIH director, Stanford University medical professor Jay Bhattacharya, a fellow Christian who Collins privately disparaged as one of “three fringe epidemiologists” during the COVID …
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