Hunter Baker
I’ve been following the progress of the Amazon Kindle. The sales alone suggest that this may be the e-reader that finally makes digital reading a serious contender to the book. Not satisfied with pure market data, I’ve been keeping up…
I recently bought a couple of the old Firing Line episodes with William F. Buckley interviewing Tom Wolfe (on modern architecture) and Malcolm Muggeridge (on the culture of the left). Just watched the Wolf episode. I am stunned. So mature,…
Writing well over 2000 years ago, Aristotle answered Plato, whose Republic advocated a form of socialism, thusly: What is common to the greatest number gets the least amount of care. People pay most attention to what is their own: they…
Some years ago, I testified at the Georgia state capitol in Atlanta on the subject of abortion regulations and their constitutionality. I will never forget the testimony that day of women who have had abortions and have come to greatly…
Gran Torino is good, really good. For a long time, I’ve heard writers and film directors talk about the importance of showing people something instead of telling them. The best films are those that set a scene which demonstrates a…
Robert P. George is arguably the most potent conservative in the academic firmament. Through his scholarship and the outstanding programs of the James Madison program at Princeton University, George has contributed powerfully to the philosophical debate over the sanctity of…
Many of us remember the U.S. victory over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Olympics at Lake Placid. It came at a good time. We all know the story. The 1970’s had been hard on America. We were beginning to…
Part of the reason Richard John Neuhaus will be remembered is for his impact on Christians in higher education. There is no question that his seminal book The Naked Public Square and then his journal First Things changed the way…
I wrote it in this space already. Richard John Neuhaus is dead. We’ve lost some big ones in the last year. Many of you will not realize how big this one was. I pray Jody Bottum and some of the…
This is a terrible loss. I imagine First Things (his stellar journal of religion and culture) will provide information about the funeral and tributes in the near future.
