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Author Archives: Andrew Stuttaford
It’s Darwin’s Birthday Today, But….
It’s Darwin’s birthday today, which is a good excuse to note that his message may not have entirely got through. Here’s Gallup from June 2012: Despite the many changes that have taken place in American society and culture over the … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Religion
Tagged Charles Darwin, creationism, Democratic Party, Republican Party
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Orthodoxy, Nationality, Autocracy (Again)
Cross-posted on Ricochet. Having long lost out in his efforts to woo Russia’s liberals, and increasingly struggling with opposition in Russia’s metropolitan centers, Vladimir Putin has instead being appealing to Russia’s ‘silent majority’. I wrote about this for National Review … Continue reading
Posted in Church & State, politics
Tagged Patriarch Kirill, Russia, Russian Orthodoxy, Vladimir Putin
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Lighting a Candle for Syncretism?
Candlemas (the feast of the purification) is today. A full explanation can be found here, but here’s an extract: Today is a day of purification, renewal, and hope. On this day, exactly 40 days after Christmas, we commemorate Mary’s obedience … Continue reading
Hell has its Uses
Count me skeptical that there is a hell (fingers crossed!), but there are clearly one or two priests in Montenegro who have some good ideas about who belongs there. The BBC reports: A church in Montenegro has sparked controversy by … Continue reading
Melancholy, Long, Withdrawing
More on the Maajid Nawaz affair, and specifically, a letter from Britain’s National Secular Society on the next step in Britain’s retreat from the open society: We are writing in response to a package presented by news correspondent Katie Razzall, … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Religion
Tagged blasphemy and defamation of religion, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Maajid Nawaz, Multiculturalism, UK
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Red in Tooth and Claw
There’s a lesson lying somewhere in this Haaretz story: Two white doves that were released by children standing alongside Pope Francis as a peace gesture have been attacked by other birds. As tens of thousands of people watched in St. … Continue reading
‘A Modern Bedlam’
Cross-posted in the Corner. Writing in the Guardian, Nick Cohen, with more grim news about the state of multiculturalist Britain: Extremists are menacing the career and life of a Liberal Democrat politician and respectable society hardly considers these authentically scandalous … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Religion
Tagged blasphemy and defamation of religion, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Maajid Nawaz, Multiculturalism, UK
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On Papal Economics
Cross-posted on Ricochet. Over at City Journal, Guy Sorman has something to say about the pope’s demagogic attack (although he’s too polite to describe it as such) on the free market: In his December apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy … Continue reading
Posted in economics
Tagged Argentina, Poland, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Religious Left
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Huckabee, ‘Libido’ & Ambition
Over at Breitbart, John Nolte calls out Huckabee’s ‘libido’ comments for the gift to the Democrats that they were: While speaking before the Republican National Committee’s national convention Thursday, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee blundered his way into the mainstream … Continue reading
Posted in politics
Tagged 2014 Midterms, 2016 Elections, Mike Huckabee, Religious Right, Republican Party
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Wash, Rinse, Repeat: Argentina’s Latest Crisis
Cross-posted on the Corner: Under first Nestor, and then Cristina, Kirchner, Argentina has been pursuing an economic policy that, in its suspicion of free markets, distrust of globalization and strong redistributionist vein, reflects a long Argentine tradition that extends far … Continue reading
Posted in economics
Tagged Argentina, Peronism, Pope Francis, Religious Left
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