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Monthly Archives: December 2008
The Leprechaun Cure
This is mildly interesting. Researchers Stepping Up Study of Health And Religiosity Small Field Devoted To Exploring Possible Link Is Expanding Despite Criticism, Lack of Funding To critics, the few dozen researchers who met this week for a Washington conference … Continue reading
Back to the future for Newt?
Here’s a quick piece in TNR which reports that Newt Gingrich is going into culture-war mode. Michelle Goldberg obviously has a perspective which is at odds with Newt’s rhetoric, but didn’t he make a name for himself in the 1990s for … Continue reading
Religion & Culture
With all the Christmas posts, I thought readers might find this of interest: The Grinch Delusion: An Atheist Can Believe in Christmas. The fact is that religious traditions are a part of human culture, and they interact with ostensibly non-religious … Continue reading
The Scrooges of Olympia
Well, John (Mr. Bradlaugh), here I am (looks around anxiously, wondering about the strange, godless place in which he now finds himself). And, yes, I’m certainly up for that Christmas drink – and a mince pie too if such delicacies can be found … Continue reading
On impossibility & religion
I highly recommend Winnifred Sullivan’s The Impossibility of Religious Freedom. It clarifies many of the incoherencies in the “church-state separation” debates. You can read the introduction online.
The season needs no reason
Apropos of Bradlaugh’s post about Christ, I thought it might be appropriate to repost something I wrote two years ago about Christmass…
O’Reilly Outraged
I find myself muddled over this flap in Washington State that Bill O’Reilly is making much of. Just in time for the Christmas season, the Governor of Washington State, Christine Gregoire, has insulted Christians all over the world. Inside the … Continue reading
P.J. O’Rourke, “We Blew It”
I don’t think anyone here has yet linked P.J. O’Rourke’s much-discussed post-election post-mortem from last month on the failures of the organized Right. O’Rourke doesn’t quite address the themes of this site directly, but keeps brushing up close by them, … Continue reading
Perception or Power
What does the secular right want? If you read Kathleen Parker’s latest – and I know she doesn’t speak for all right secularists – you get the strange sense that she wants the way the GOP is perceived to change … Continue reading
The Right Nation
Walter: I reviewed Mickelthwait and Wooldridge’s book for the late lamented New York Sun here. The Sun’s literary editor at the time, Robert Messenger, called up to congratulate me on having used the word “armigerous.” I hope the paper did … Continue reading