by James Delingpole Sorry, conservatives: when President Obama describes climate change as the greatest threat we face, he’s exactly right. Terrorism can’t and won’t destroy our civilization, but global warming could and might. Paul Krugman, Nobel prizewinning economist, public intellectual; New York Times columnist The thing I love about Paul Krugman is that he’s such […]
Bad News for Supporters of Women in Combat
When politics interfere with reality and science. The US Marines tested all-male squads against mixed-gender ones, and the results were pretty bleak. by Svati Kirsten Narula In 2013, the US military lifted its ban on women serving in combat. Shortly after, the Marine Corps began what it calls an “unprecedented research effort” to understand the […]
Christians, Make Bricks Without Straw
by James Kushiner An Orthodox Layman, James Kushiner is the Executive Editor of Touchstone magazine, and Executive Director of The Fellowship of St. James. The Church has dealt with tyrannical dictators, ostracism, persecution, and arm chair quarterbacks for millenia. Mr. Kushiner’s article explains the battleground with clarity. Whether it be Babylon, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, Islamic terrorism, the Ottoman Empire, […]
Orthodox Christians Must Now Learn To Live as Exiles in Our Own Country
Rod Dreher is a senior editor and blogger at The American Conservative. Voting Republican and other failed culture war strategies are not going to save us now No, the sky is not falling — not yet, anyway — but with the Supreme Court ruling constitutionalizing same-sex marriage, the ground under our feet has shifted […]
The World Will Soon Follow One Religion?
Looks like Fr. Seraphim Rose was right about the Religion of the Future after all. “Spiritual religion has been the best discovery by the human race to shape an individual’s life, and there will always be a need for it. Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be,” said Swami Satyamayananda, secretary […]
Bow Down
The Choice That Faces Every Believer in America By Laurel Cornell Robinson Picture three young American men, who have moved up through the ranks in this government against certain odds. They are good at what they do, and they are respected. One day, they and all the members of Congress, lobbyists, and members of the […]