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election
Bernie Sanders thrives on the language of morality and ethics, yet his vision of economic policy is anything but humane. He sees wealth and income inequality as the great injustice of our time, yet he fails to see the social disintegration caused by a burgeoning bureaucratic state, increasing dependence on
Faith
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the Christian season of suffering, repentance, and for some, the purgatorial path to redemption. For Christians, the gift of Christ's suffering and the sacrifice of the Cross is the seminal event in the road to eternal salvation. On Ash Wednesday, we
Donald Trump
H.L. Menken famously noted that "the saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful." With Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Hillary Clinton performing strongly in the national polls, as well as in the Iowa Caucuses, this
Politics
Conservatives often speak of the primacy of imagination in politics and culture, but its connection to policy is often shrouded in confusion. What, then, is the imagination and why is it important to the public discourse?
baltimore
Not since the turbulent protests of the 1960s has America been confronted with public lawlessness and disorder to the degree it has been seen throughout the last two years. As the new year begins, Americans must reflect upon the nature of our country and the state of its culture. Are
England
A recently released report published by the Woolf Institute's Commission on Religion and Belief in Public Life at Cambridge University recommends substantial changes to the way religion is treated in the British Isles. Shrouded in the language of "pluralism," the report, entitled "Living With Difference:
islam
Whittaker Chambers wrote that "the crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God." Pluralism is the manifestation of such indifference because it admits that belief is subjective and personal rather than an expression of existential reality. A believer cannot profess
activists
"In politics," said Nietzsche, "the professor plays the comic role." There was a time, on American college campuses, when this may have been true. In the '70s and '80s, American academics were, indeed, like clowns – tenured radicals who fed their students a daily diet