It is a staple of election campaigns today–particularly closely-fought contests. The candidates go to church. And not just for a Clinton-esque Bible-in-hand photo-op, but they actually take to the pulpit and make speeches. And so it is hardly unexpected that now that Ned Lamont has taken a 51-47...

George Weigel’s latest book, The Cube and the Cathedral, sparked considerable controversy when published last year. But then again, what orthodox Catholic who happens to actually write well and is taken seriously by large segments of society is not controversial? Weigel makes the case that Europe’s...

Touchstone Magazine’s great blog, Mere Comments, has a good post today about the stuff that gets sold to Christians as witnessing materials. Russell D. Moore writes about his interview with scholar Alan Wolfe and his impressions of the wares being peddled at the International Christian Retail Show....

Case in point. Just seeing this makes me feel 13 again. I wonder if Corey Feldman is still available to do one of the voices.

What do ITA’s Josh Claybourn and Food Network TV host Alton Brown have in common? They have both eaten brain sandwiches in Evansville, IN. Brown recently recently completed a cross-country tour in search of authentic “road food”–the antithesis of today’s homogenous nationwide...

How odd: Half of Americans now say Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the United States invaded the country in 2003 — up from 36 percent last year, a Harris poll finds. Pollsters deemed the increase both “substantial” and “surprising” in light of persistent press...

One of the hallmarks of a bad government is that it will expand quite beyond the expected ills of ruining prosperity and liberty: it will also begin to infect culture. A sure sign of a sick society is songs that take quite too much of an interest in the machinery of the state. Take, for instance, North...

Today marks the 38th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Paul VI’s perhaps most famous (or infamous) encyclical. It came to the faithful after one the lengthiest preparations for an encyclical in memory, some four years. It was the first time, since Pius XI’s Casti Connubii (Dec. 1932), that...

Tomorrow is day one of the Indiana bar exam, and shortly after taking it I’ll be heading overseas for 24 days. Since I’ll likely be away from email and an internet connection during that time, this is my last post for about a month. In the meantime, you can check out my itinerary in Africa...

There are few people who have contributed more to the rise of modern American conservatism than William F. Buckley. The man started National Review, built it and its ideology into a pillar of mainstream political thought, and once held the ear of President Reagan. It was once said that Reagan would pout...