by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
According to liberals, they are tolerant, open-minded, sensitive to complexity and nuance, and wary of simplistic explanations. So why is a column by the liberal Michael Hirsh, in the liberal newsweekly Newsweek, so intolerant, close-minded, simplistic and bigoted? Continue reading “No Country for Old Liberals”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers
This article was first published in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard.
Continue reading “Jihad Studies as Trivia”
by Craig Bernthal
Private Papers
Most Christians in America probably don’t know much about what is happening in the Episcopal Church (TEC). Continue reading “Leaving the New Episcopal Church”
by Raymond Ibrahim
National Review Online
Though he is little known in the West, Coptic priest Zakaria Botros — named Islam’s “Public Enemy #1” by the Arabic newspaper, al-Insan al-Jadid— has been making waves in the Islamic world. Continue reading “Islam’s Public Enemy #1”
by Raymond Ibrahim
National Review Online
According to the Associated Press, Saudi King Abdullah, in an unprecedented move last week, “made an impassioned plea for dialogue among Muslims, Christians, and Jews” — going so far as to refer to the latter two as “our brothers.” Continue reading “Real Talk?”
by Bruce S. Thornton
City Journal
Commentators are already calling the rise and fall of New York governor Eliot Spitzer “tragic.” Continue reading “Spitzer’s Comic Fall”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
Barack Obama’s attempt to defuse the crisis in his presidential campaign caused by videos of his “spiritual mentor’s” bigoted sermons has been spun as “the most significant public discussion of race in decades,” as The New York Times gushed. Continue reading “The Old Script”
by Craig Bernthal
Private Papers
Temperance is not high in the current list of American virtues. We are the 9th most obese people on earth, according to the World Health Organization, with 74% of American’s over 15 identified as overweight. Continue reading “Paying the Piper”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers
During the eulogy of the eight slain students of the March 6 terrorist attack at Mercaz HaRav yeshiva school in West Jerusalem, highly-respected Rabbi Ya’akov Shapira made, for the average gentile, a rather illusive allusion regarding the attack: Continue reading “No Small World”
Private Papers
JF: Professor Hanson, you criticize U.S. immigration policy in your recent bookMexifornia. What is it that bothers you about the development at the Southern border? Continue reading “The Future with Europe”