“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” — Winston Churchill, House of Commons, Oct. 22, 1945 American socialists are eager to prove Churchill right. Their…
The Bible, Plato, and Aristotle all agree that a proper life is ordered around the principles of greatest importance and of greatest depth. The art of cooking, writes Plato, will teach how to make dishes people would like to eat….
Eighteen years ago, while in a hotel lobby in Key West, I heard a term, said with derision, that I had never heard before: “birther.” Two gay men were complaining about something and then this comment rang out, “Oh, she’s…
Yesterday, I passed through airports in two decidedly non-Christian nations. In one terminal, “Merry X-mas” played in foot-high letters on a digital screen; in the second, a bigger-than-life Santa stood under “Merry Christmas” cutouts with an arm upraised in greeting….
The last light in the Nativity Scene has been turned on. The room is dimly lit. Blue and yellow sparkles glitter in the building’s windows. There’s just the reflection of a silver foil river, which runs through the fields, and…
Dear Grandfather, up there in Heaven: The last time I saw you was in 1993 and, seeing as we liked to write to each other, I have decided to send some words your way today. You survived the Spanish Civil…
On Friday, season three of the TV series The Chosen, which chronicles the journey of Jesus’ disciples, will premiere in over 2,000 theaters in the United States. The showing will include the season’s first two episodes. The show is perhaps…
God said, Let there be light, and there was light. In the very first paragraph of the Book of Books, the primordial darkness and incoherence is mastered by words, the divine speech. As last of the creatures, that speech devolves…
Although I disclosed in my last article in The American Spectator that I had a serious health matter pulling me away from writing regularly — in the meantime, temporarily, just for a limited time only — I chose then not to elaborate….
