Principalities And Powers

Sochi introduced a new Winter Olympic event this year--the feral three-legged dog race. There’s no prize for the winner, but all the losers...

There’s usually more going on behind the headlines than you think. Take the A&E Network dust-up with Phil Robertson over his  GQ m...

With attention at Christmastime on our pathetic consumerism, take a look at this review that appears on Amazon with the  Samsung 85" Ul...

Here is Yale professor Steven B. Smith on the opening chapters of John Locke's Second Treatise of Government . I suspect that this w...

My column this week, " Santorum Stirs Up Religion ," looks at the prudence not only of trying to philosophize or theologize in pub...

The fundamental crisis that is facing our nation--more fundamental that the economic, the fiscal, or anything that foreign nation is threate...

Mitt Romney says the darnedest things. Take, for example, when he said, “I like being able to fire people.” Well, what he actually said w...

Rep. Ron Paul has much to his credit. He is honest. He is true to his principles. He is incorruptible. As for those principles, he is a fait...

The statesman of the Velvet Revolution is dead. Vaclav Havel at age 75. Hear his reflections on the recent upheavals in the middle east. ...

A political campaign is an extended job interview. I wrote about looking at Herman Cain's appalling knowledge gaps from that perspectiv...

Crony capitalism is not capitalism at all. That should be the cry from the right. And that is my complaint in last week's Worldmag.com...

Someone who appreciated my book and quoted it on his blog, D.X. Turner from Texas, has alerted me to this informative juxtaposition. The fi...

Everyone's approval ratings are scraping the ground. People are talking about a third party candidate. People have a low view not only o...

It is not liberal to be concerned about racism and about the problems of one particular race. Here is Anthony Bradley's promotional vide...

Here, Herman Cain fails his political oral exam. It is not a matter of failing an ideological litmus test. It's not a matter of tripping...

The debate between the left and right in our politics today is a debate over the size and roll of government. Lisa Sharon Harper and I have ...

There are certain shows that authors pray will invite them to be guests. Oprah etc. The Glenn Beck Show is one of them. If Beck holds up a b...

As I was preparing to despair of having anything to offer as a column this week, I remember something that crossed my mind regarding preside...

Byron Borger at Hearts and Minds Books , gives this review of Left, Right and Christ . Actually, it's more of a notice than a critical r...

The full, hour-long video of my American Enterprise Institute "Values and Capitalism"  luncheon event for Left, Right and Christ ...