Monthly Archives: November 2008

The H.L. Mencken Club

Just back from a weekend down in Baltimore, where I gave a talk to the H.L. Mencken Club.  Nice people; well-organized event; good reception for talk.  However, I can’t forbear noting some dissonances pertinent to the theme of this blog. … Continue reading

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What is the Secular Right?

The Wikipedia entry for Secular Right is rather thin….

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Atheism = subprime meltdown

Mad Max and the Meltdown. This WSJ piece is very strange…pinning financial irresponsibility on the negative externalities of secularism. Has he heard of prosperity theology? Has religion inoculated America’s most pious ethnic group, blacks, from the folly of taking out … Continue reading

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First they came for the scientists….

Conservatives And Science.

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Speaking Truth To Charisma

Giving Up on God. Jonah Goldberg unleashes righteous indignation.

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