First published in France in 1973, Jean Raspail’s novel The Camp of the Saints is one of those books many talk about but very few appear to have actually read. After a long period out of print, rumored to be for political reasons, the book has circulated for years in the form of PDFs and […]
A friend asked me to come to his birthday dinner next week. “That is,” he added, “if they’ll let you out.” “Let me out?” I asked. I have been a student at the Princeton Theological Seminary for more than a year. I’m about mid-way through the Master’s in Divinity program, on my way — God […]
In the mid-1990s, the late Sen. Joseph Lieberman, then an Orthodox Jewish Connecticut Democrat, and Sen. Daniel Coats, an evangelical Indiana Republican, founded the Center for Judeo-Christian Values in America to promote “the value of human life; the sanctity of the traditional family; the value of hard work, responsibility, honesty, loyalty, compassion and tolerance; and […]
People sometimes don’t realize how much of the training soldiers get is about saving lives, not taking them. Throughout my enlistment, we were often stuck reviewing medical stuff. As a combat engineer, I understood the importance of soldiers being prepared to treat wounded comrades, but I hated medical training. Evaluate a casualty: “Calmly ask in […]
In modern America, most people would agree that the job of the White House press secretary is to lie to the press. That was not always the case. Certainly, all members of a president’s administration would be partial to their boss’s side of things, but the job was created to inform, not to obfuscate. That […]
Luca Guadagnino’s new MeToo-era drama After the Hunt begins with a credit sequence that meticulously recreates those that have adorned Woody Allen’s movies for the past 50 years: the names appear in a slender Windsor typeface on black. Guadagnino goes so far as to list the cast in alphabetical order, as is Allen’s wont, along […]
You can’t build a functioning political coalition with people who admire Hitler: You need moderates to win elections, not edgelords who refuse to knock...
Traditional marriage has always had its opponents. But in recent years, marriage has become less of a priority for men and women. Much of this is due to a focus on career and life experiences over family and children. But part of it is the shift in sexual ethics. Our culture has ever-expanding definitions for […]
