Monthly Archives: May 2013

I find the public career of Mr. Andrew Sullivan puzzling, disappointing even infuriating. I started reading him when he was writing for The New York Observer and subsequently as he and Christopher Hitchens kept the debate of 9/11 within the bounds … Continue reading →

The American Empire is and will be at perpetual war. That is the fate of empires, but the fate of the Republic is a matter of our gravest concern. How do the tangible facts of empire and it’s necessary strategies … Continue reading →

I could quote that old hymn, Jesus loves me: Jesus loves me—this I know, For the Bible tells me so; Little ones to him belong,— They are weak, but he is strong. (Anna Bartlett Warner) Mr. Douthat in his latest … Continue reading →

Is it possible to write an essay on Kierkegaard without the mention of the ethical/philosophical monstrosity of the ‘teleological suspension of the ethical’? Mr. Jeffrey Frank benignly characterizes it as ‘ a dazzling thought experiment’ with ‘somewhat frightening, especially when … Continue reading →