Just for the record, and current polls notwithstanding, I predict that President Bush will be re-elected on Tuesday (or whenever all the recounts and legal wrangling are finished – from which may God save us!). I think the Democrats in general and the far Left in particular have overplayed their hand with respect to the…

Martin Peretz has some questions for John Kerry: How would John Kerry have dealt with Saddam? He has told us Saddam needed to be “confronted.” But the word itself–which implies that the United States could have overthrown Saddam without using military force–tells us what we need to know. Had the United States and our allies…

Deciding not to vote is not the same as not bothering to. It’s a conscious choice, made for a reason. And the reason is this: A vote is an endorsement. When you punch the circle next to a candidate’s name, you’re backing that candidate’s program. It’s like signing a petition, or writing a letter of…

Further, all men are to be loved equally. But since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special regard to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you. For, suppose that you had a great deal of some commodity, and felt bound…

From Jim Henley.

This is a deeply silly piece of writing. Slate asked its contributors to disclose the candidate for whom they’re voting and offer some reasons. Here’s the response from Steven Landsburg, the economic writer: If George Bush had chosen the racist David Duke as a running mate, I’d have voted against him, almost without regard to…

Eastern Orthodox theologian David B. Hart has a review of The Virtue of War: Reclaiming the Classic Christian Traditions East and West by Alexander F. C. Webster and Darrell Cole in the November issue of Touchstone. The book, according to Hart, is an attempt to show two things. First, that the Eastern and Western churches…

Christianity Today asks.

When we ask how Christians should relate to the social order around them, the underlying presupposition is that the social order is not “Christian,” otherwise the question wouldn’t arise. Whether or not we regard it as a good thing, there is a growing consensus that we in the West are living in societies that are…

David Koyzis offers a clarification of first and second-level political disagreements among Christians.