by David French There is no compromise with people who seek and require your silence. On Sunday evening, New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait published a piece asking why more disgruntled Republicans don’t punish their party by switching sides. Chait notes that the “strongest defense against the election of an extreme or unfit leader is for […]
Harvard Declares War on Orthodox Christianity
by Sohrab Ahmari The culture wars heat up, and are not likely to die down. Harvard is now determined to ostracize, censor, and ultimately root out Orthodox Christianity. That’s okay, Christianity has faced oppression and persecution before. We always win. Drive down Massachusetts Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares in the tony, hyper-educated city of […]
The Slippery Slope, the Thin Edge of the Wedge, and the Camel’s Nose
by Fr. Lawrence Farley One of the many things I do not understand is why argument from experience is sometimes dismissed out of hand. In the debate about deaconesses, for example, when one argues from past experience that one thing inevitably (or at least most of the time) leads to another so that ordaining deaconesses […]
Public Orthodoxy: Promoting Cultural Marxism and LGBT Blasphemy
by Fr. John Whiteford One could make a career of responding to all of the nonsense that “Public Orthodoxy” spews on a regular basis. Recently, Ashley Purpura has made the unlikely argument that the services of the Church somehow promote gender fluidity, in her [dare I presume her binary gender?] article: “Beyond the Binary: Hymnographic […]