It's amazing, but some places are allowing their paved roads to revert to gravel ones: Paved roads, historical emblems of American achievement, are being torn up across rural America and replaced with gravel or other rough surfaces as counties struggle with tight budgets and dwindling state and federal revenue. State money for local roads was …
Donald Trump Doesn't Want to be a Part of Flyover Country
And he'll sue to stop it, too: Donald Trump is going after the county over its operation of Palm Beach International Airport and any expansion of the airport, which is located less than 3 miles west of the Mar-a-Lago Club. The suit also names airport director Bruce Pelly. The 68-page document, filed Monday, claims jets …
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Poor White People and Élite Universities: Beating the Dog in the Water
This from, of all places, the New York Times, and Ross Douthat: Last year, two Princeton sociologists, Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford, published a book-length study of admissions and affirmative action at eight highly selective colleges and universities. Unsurprisingly, they found that the admissions process seemed to favor black and Hispanic applicants, while whites …
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It's Official: We're an Elitist Snob Country Now
Well, it has been since 2008, but Janet Daley at the Telegraph has a Brit's "déjà vu all over again" feeling about it: What is more startling is the growth in America of precisely the sort of political alignment which we have known for many years in Britain: an electoral alliance of the educated, self-consciously …
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Take the Celebration to the People
As many of you know, for me, in one sense, this is it: at the end of August, I will be leaving as Ministries Coordinator of the Church of God Department of Laity Ministries. Next week is our General Assembly in Orlando, in many ways the place where I will make my parting "social." As …
Is This The Last Act for Civil Marriage?
Coming from a blog like First Things, it could be: Legal recognition of marriage would become a purely civil matter. A couple who wanted to marry would have to get a license and go to a civil magistrate. If they then wanted their union sacramentalized, they would go to the Church. If the Church refused …
The Non-Economic Objectives of Trade Unions
This subject is getting some traction these days, so I'd like to repeat something I posted a long time ago about the non-economic objectives of trade unions. The consequences of these are, IMHO, the biggest argument against them. Trade unions and the labour movement in general have always loomed large for me. Our family business …
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The Class Struggle Comes Back
It's a Marxist's dream: Class, the Industrial Revolution’s great political dividing line, is enjoying Information Age resurgence. It now threatens the political future of presidents, prime ministers and even Politburo chiefs. As in the Industrial Age, new technology is displacing whole groups of people — blue- and white-collar workers — as it boosts productivity and …
Jon Meacham: Putting a Bullet in the Easter Bunny
That, according to Andrew Ferguson, is what Newsweek might as well have done in its recent coverage of Christian holidays: He (Jon Meacham, Newsweek's editor) ignored the truth that the old newsmagazine editors lived by: journalists who write to satisfy people like themselves will soon run out of readers. The magazine that lies dying in …
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Driving the Church Underground in the U.S.: The Decline in Personal Evangelism
It's taking place amongst American teenagers, even Evangelical ones, according to a recent Barna survey: The most striking change was the fact that teenagers today seem much less inclined to have spiritual conversations about their faith in Christ with non-believers. The survey question specifically asked if the survey respondent had “explained your religious beliefs to someone …
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