Why the Pope should call for the return of the Hagia Sophia by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Many in the West are congratulating Pope Benedict XVI’s recent trip to Turkey, where in the Blue Mosque he prayed facing Mecca and made other gestures meant to salve the wounds raised by his references to Islam’s […]
Christian leaders abase themselves before Islam by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal On November 18, the New York Times ran a full-page ad entitled “A Christian Response to A Common Word Between Us and You.” Share This
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The doors are open for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but closed for Larry Summers by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal Many observers noted that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Columbia University took place at about the same time that the University of California at Davis canceled a speaking appearance by former Harvard president Lawrence Summers,
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The assault on skilled, independent, intelligent blacks by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers When Barack Obama accused Hillary Clinton of “playing the gender card,” the hypocrisy that typically defines our public discourse on race descended into the surreal. Share This
Al Gore’s evangelical liberalism reconsidered. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Al Gore embodies a type that usually turns up in high school or university faculties, what we can call the evangelical liberal. Share This
The showy compromise of free speech in Belgium by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers As the headquarters for the European Union, Brussels is the capital of the EUtopia that Europeans and blue-state Americans keep touting as the social-political order superior to that of the United States. Share This
Bad cultural habits plague the West in the War on Terror by Bruce S. Thornton City Journal Six years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, we continue to hunt for those whose blunders let them happen. Share This
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by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers As New York Times critic A.O. Scott wrote recently, forty years ago this summer the movie that changed the movies premiered. Share This
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by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The New York Times’s Thomas Friedman is right on the mark most of the time in his analysis of the dysfunctions troubling the Muslim world and of our own failures in confronting them. Share This
By the Sword: Ibrahim and Spencer Unveil the Truth of Islam Read More »
CIA’s new revelations fans the flames of “progressive” myths of our past by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The publication of the CIA’s “family jewels” — the record of its domestic spying, hare-brained plots against Castro, and mind-control experiments, among other oddities — is sure to add fuel to that roaring bonfire of a myth
The Passions of the Left Read More »