That would be my less than charitable description of this journal – The New Libertarian (first issue is available to non subscribers – password is ‘tnlv1i1’). Their preferred locution is “pragmatic on domestic policy, hawkish on foreign policy.” It features the work of Max Borders, whose repellent Hobbesean libertarianism I critiqued here.

Eastern Orthodox theologian David B. Hart (Writing in the Wall Street Journal! Are we seeing the emergence here of a new “public theologian”? Look out Stanley Hauerwas!) reflects on the metaphysics of soul and body in light of the Terri Schiavo controversy (via Pontifications): Terri Schiavo has now died, but of course the controversy surrounding…

Rep. Tom DeLay and others have suggested, in the wake of the Terri Schiavo ordeal, that Congress ought to rein in the “tyrannical” judiciary. Now, I share the concerns of conservatives that the judiciary has expanded its power at the expense of democracy. However, might I also suggest that Congress could restore some balance to…

Legendary thrash metal pioneers (and, yes, one of my all-time favorite bands) Anthrax are putting back together their original lineup (well, not their original original lineup – their first album, Fistful of Metal, featured singer Neil Turbin, rather than Joey Belladonna, the singer during the band’s glory years). However, contrary to what one might think,…

Self-styled “anarchist” Noam Chomsky (what, you didn’t know he had a blog?) thinks not only that there should be military conscription, but that all jobs (or at least the unpleasant ones) should be divvied up by conscription: One preliminary question is whether it is a democratically determined community decision that an army is necessary. Sometimes…

See here. Also, Australian bioethicist Michael Cook argues that ineptitude doomed the effort to keep Ms. Schiavo alive. Meanwhile, The Netherlands continues to position itself on the cutting edge of Western civilization’s slide into barbarism.

The very erudite Secret Agent Man has the most thorough debunking of the Republicans’ efforts to intervene in the Schiavo case that I’ve seen: The federal government’s role in the American mythos is the deus ex machina, swooping down onto the stage of corrupt local politics and setting all things right. So it may be…

Camassia (recently returned from bandwidth limbo) posts on her experience of giving up meat, fish, dairy, and eggs for Lent. She also hints that she may make it a regular thing (at least the beast, fowl, and reptile – hey, alligators are amniotes too!). I’m what you might call a “demi” vegetarian (or, as I…

Eric at Xphiles is doing a series on Lutherans and the so-called Emerging Church. See here, here, and here. I myself am a bit skeptical of this “new and improved” version of Christianity which tends to throw around buzzwords like “postmodernity” a little too cavalierly for my taste, but Eric makes a good case that…

What does it say when probably the highest-profile advocate in America of a “consistent ethic of life” is a Jewish atheist? (Not that there’s anything wrong with that!) Link here. (via A Conservative Blog for Peace)