Christian Failure?

A simple question: how many professed christians will give the monies allocated for ‘xmas’ pleasure and presents to the poor this xmas? Give and not question the giving(no rationalisation about what I have earned is mine). The answer is 0.

Conservative President?

Why do American Conservatives keep changing their minds about what constitutes conservatism? By no stretch of the intellectual imagination could George W. Bush be classified as a conservative.Is the fact that he is considered to be a conservative an indication of the herd mentality of Democracy; that is, a failure on the part of the … More ...

A note of thanks

My lengthy “Theory of Everything” essay, which appeared at Turnabout in a series of drafts, will be published in issue 128 of Telos. I would like to thank those who were good enough to comment on it. It would have been a much weaker piece otherwise.

The ideology of today’s left according to the leftists

Ms. Marina Subirats, a sociologist and a member of the socialist municipal government of Barcelona, Spain, where the Olympic Games were celebrated in 1992, recently declared to the media what is, in her opinion, the present ideology of the political left, that she proudly represents. Few times, if any, one significant leftist spoke so clearly, … More ...

More thoughts on the blue state of mind

The ’60s, bracketed as they were by the school prayer and abortion decisions, stand for definitive public rejection of the transcendent in favor of a wholly this-worldly understanding of reality. In the absence of a superior point of reference, the social order became the ultimate moral reality and human choice the ultimate authority. For … More ...

Rolling Back Women’s Rights

“Americans, and American women in particular, are officially on notice that post-election, the Republican war on reproductive rights has entered an ominous new phase”

How is this so?, exactly.

Are not Americans; the Doctors and pharmacists?
Is this not a “war”, that could be won, without “ANY” discrimination?

By forcing my will on anyone; is … More ...

The rights of conscience in America today

Here’s the latest on mutual respect and public neutrality, as filtered through what now passes for American public thought: a U.S. appeals court says that law schools, which have never seen a federal antidiscrimination rule on faculty hiring they don’t like, can ignore a federal law that says they can’t discriminate against military recruiters and … More ...