That seems to have been the message of such anti-war demonstrations as there were this weekend to mark the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. As an opponent of the war I might be expected to sympathize with this message, but I’m far from certain that this would be the best course of action.…

Sang this one at church yesterday. (Although, for the record, I’m not crazy about this newfangled practice of conflating Palm Sunday and “Passion Sunday.” People can go to church on Good Friday, dammit! UPDATE: I realize that in one sense it makes perfect sense to observe Passion Sunday as inagurating Holy Week. Though until, I…

Here’s an article in the Guardian (via Get Religion) by two British Anglicans urging the Left to realize that it has religious allies and not to cede religious faith to the Right: Even comparatively recently things were looking up for the religious left. Tony Blair is a member of the Christian socialist movement and in…

Charles Krauthammer detects a double standard: After all, going back at least to the Spanish Civil War, the left has always prided itself on being the great international champion of freedom and human rights. And yet, when America proposed to remove the man responsible for torturing, gassing and killing tens of thousands of Iraqis, the…

Today Camassia linked to this post from Rilina comparing Jim Wallis’ God’s Politics and J. H. Yoder’s Politics of Jesus. Rilina is dismayed by what s/he perceives as Wallis’ tendency to subordinate the core of Christianity to a progressive political agenda: What’s missing is the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Really.…

Salon‘s Charles Taylor (no, not the evil dictator or the communitarian philosopher) heaps some well-deserved praise on my beloved O.C. in the New York Observer.

Things aren’t looking good for the President’s Social Security plan if this story is to be believed. Now, I don’t do much in the way of thinking about nitty gritty policy stuff here, because a) I don’t know that much about it and b) it doesn’t really interest me. But what I can do passably…

Along with the thinkers like Russell Kirk and Robert Nisbet, Richard Weaver (1910-1963) was one of the leading intellectual lights of the conservative movement that emerged after the Second World War. Weaver might best be classified as a “Christian humanist” or maybe “Christian Platonist”; he believed that there was an intelligible order to reality, and…

Anti-war conservative Robert Novak has some good things (well, I think they’re good things) to say about John Bolton in his most recent column: If being a neoconservative means embracing a Wilsonian vision of bringing democracy to the world, Bolton is surely not one. He may be the last important foe of nation-building inside the…

An interesting interview with New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew Napolitano. Napolitano is a staunch advocate of procedural checks on government, especially in areas of law enforcement. Some excerpts: Reason: What’s your case against the USA PATRIOT Act? Napolitano: Let’s put aside all of the procedural problems with enacting it. Forget about the fact that…