Hunter Baker
I’m pleased to announce the publication of a new journal of Christian thought by Houston Baptist University. We call it The City. The journal is aimed at the educated layperson in the church. Advisory editors include Francis Beckwith (an occasional…
James, I had forgotten the ill-fated Alan Keyes Is Making Sense program on MSNBC. You are an historian of the movement, sir. The famed sweater is surely slated for the Smithsonian someday.
Michael Lindsay of Rice University recently published Faith in the Halls of Power with Oxford University Press. I’m reviewing the book for the Journal of Law and Religion. Having read many volumes analyzing the role and culture of evangelicals in…
I announced the death of the Southern Appeal blog here at TAS, so, it seems fitting to announce the return of the site. TAS mainstay Quin Hillyer was a major contributor to the old site and I participated, too.
Quin, As a former Terry Bradshaw brand peanut butter eating child of the seventies, I went to look up Bradshaw’s stats with the idea of rebutting you. It can’t be done. You’re right. But anybody who saw the man play…
I think Favre is like John McEnroe. He had about three years where he was as good as anyone who ever played the game and was frightening to the competition. The rest of the time, he was well above average….
I attended the Houston Presidential Summit yesterday. Though one should be pleased to rub elbows with city elites, I left the event disquieted. Former Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher talked about his career as a contributor to the supply of…
What offended me about Noah’s column was his assertion that Buckley had left nothing of literary merit behind other than God and Man at Yale. To me, a bald assertion of that sort is exactly the kind of throwaway bunk…
Here’s a story I once used for a column here at TAS online: While a graduate student at the University of Georgia in the early nineties, I had the privilege of attending a speech given by William F. Buckley. The…
The first clips I saw months ago didn’t look impressive to me, but the preview now in circulation holds a lot of promise. Ben Stein seems to have his finger right on the pulse of the origins controversy. The question…
