JOE SOBRAN: THE SOBRAN ADMINISTRATION
In a previous column, I observed that "the presidency is ... a Superman's job. Nobody should be given - or trusted with - that much power and responsibility. Nobody can…...
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: THE LOST ART OF SPEAKING
Not long ago, I read that Hollywood is worried about a shortage of young male stars who can play big roles. I'm not surprised.And I think I can give the…...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: CHURCH, STATE, AND SCHOOL
Which are crazier: liberals or conservatives?The question is forced on us anew by the latest flap over the Pledge of Allegiance. A Federal appeals court in San Francisco (where else?)…...
Saturday, April 21, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: YOUR FRIEND, THE STATE
Albert Jay Nock, an excellent but largely forgotten writer, once wrote a little book titled Our Enemy, the State. I still reread it when I'm groggy from absorption in the…...
Thursday, April 12, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: THE RISE OF TAX SLAVERY
Tax time approaches, and Americans are as always paying H & R Block billions to help them save some of their wealth from their ravenous government. Pitiful, in a way:…...
Thursday, April 05, 2012
CHARLES G. MILLS: WINDMILLS AND WATERWHEELS
GLEN COVE, NY -- Many proponents of "renewable energy" are hypocrites who have no real interest in renewable energy. About the time that the superiority of bronze and iron…...
JOE SOBRAN: DID THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST MOVIE HAVE “EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE”?
Sometimes I think that if people really listened to themselves, I'd be out of a job. When they can't mean what they say, you are entitled to doubt that they're…...
Saturday, March 31, 2012
WES VERNON: ANDREW BREITBART CHRONICLED THE CORRUPTING INFLUENCES IN AMERICAN CULTURE
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- You may have heard the late Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012) was initially alerted to the Democrat/media complex when that collaboration smeared Clarence Thomas as it fought to block…...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
CHARLES G. MILLS: CONTRACEPTION
GLEN COVE, NY -- Progressives held three closely related superstitions between the two world wars: eugenics, scientific racism, and contraception. Eugenics was the theory that humanity could be improved by…...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: THE CURSE OF BEATLEMANIA
A few weeks ago I wrote some mild criticisms of the Beatles and the sky fell. Angry readers called me "ignorant," "vicious," and various other things displaying blindness to my…...
Friday, March 16, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: CELEBRITY AND MORTALITY
Toward the end of his all-too-brief life, the great pop singer and jazz pianist Nat "King" Cole phoned his record company. The switchboard operator answered: "Capitol Records, home of the…...
Thursday, March 15, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: WHAT DO WE OWE THE STATE?
I've had a lot of response to my column on Hans-Hermann Hoppe's new book Democracy - The God That Failed, most of it enthusiastic. A surprising number of citizens of…...
Saturday, March 10, 2012
WES VERNON: THE BIRTH DEARTH AND CONTRACEPTION
"The richer a nation becomes, the fewer its children, and the sooner it begins to die." - Ernest Hemingway WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Many viewers scratched their heads during a Republican…...
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
JON BASIL UTLEY: WAR, SOCIAL VALUES, AND RON PAUL
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Is supporting war more important for evangelicals than their social values? Isn't Ron Paul a social conservative? He opposes abortion, gay marriage and promiscuous sex, he has…...
Friday, February 24, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: ALL WE LIKE SHEEP - FLEECED BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT?
Once upon a time, my father bought Time magazine every week, as I do now. He paid 20 cents per issue; I'm paying $3.95. In my teens I bought paperback…...
Friday, February 17, 2012
CHARLES G. MILLS: THE GOLDEN AGE OF PAROCHIAL EDUCATION
GLEN COVE, NY -- The golden age of the American parochial school system (from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 until the end of World War I in 1918) was…...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
CRAIG TURNER: HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE - THE DEBATE
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States government stated recently that it would withhold foreign aid from African nations that do not legalize homosexual marriage, thereby blackmailing African nations that refuse…...
Friday, February 03, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: THE AUTONOMOUS STATE
As the Republican primary season in the year 2000 was heating up (George W. Bush easily got the nomination), Joe Sobran wrote the following. John McCain is that rare…...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: THE END OF A MAD CENTURY
Well, the Y2K apocalypse has failed to occur. By now we were supposed to be devouring our children (or being devoured by them). The Third Millennium is off to a…...
Friday, January 27, 2012
PAUL GOTTFRIED: THE IRREPRESSIBLE GOP CONFLICT
ELIZABETHTOWN, PA -- The Republican presidential candidate who is the most divisive is Ron Paul. Pat Buchanan observes (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48685) that Paul is the only candidate whom his rivals, and most…...
Friday, January 20, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: HOW KILLING BECAME A “RIGHT”
Nearly three decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that abortion is constitutionally protected. Ostensibly libertarian, the ruling was actually one of the most tyrannical acts in American history.What greater…...
Friday, January 13, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: DEFINING CONSERVATISM DOWNWARD
In the late Sixties, the liberal cartoonist and wag Al Capp suddenly turned against the Left. People were startled by his apparent rightward swing. "I haven'tchanged," he insisted. "Liberalism has."Today…...
Monday, January 09, 2012
PAUL GOTTFRIED: THE PAUL PHENOMENON
ELIZABETHTOWN, PA -- Listening to Charles Krauthammer on TV explaining the surging popularity of Ron Paul, I was deeply impressed by the prudence displayed by this usually partisan commentator. Unlike…...
Thursday, December 22, 2011
JOSEPH SOBRAN: IS DARWIN HOLY?
"The great sociologist of religion Emile Durkheim called the contrast between the sacred and the profane the widest and deepest of all contrasts the human mind is capable of making,"…...
Monday, December 19, 2011
JOSEPH SOBRAN: CAN GOD SPEAK TO US?
Flash! Just in time for the Christmas season, Newsweek reports this week that the Gospel accounts of Christ's nativity aren't "fully factual." Do tell. Talk about investigative journalism! Not to…...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: THE PROPHETIC C.S. LEWIS
Deep political wisdom can be found in a writer who took very little interest in politics: C.S. Lewis, a scholar who achieved his greatest fame as a popular Christian writer.…...
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
JOSEPH SOBRAN: PUNISHING “HATE”
The "progressive" community - news media, politicians, and various moralists at large - is in a lather about "hate crimes," demanding federal legislation to combat them. The trouble is that…...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
CHARLES G. MILLS: PROGRESSIVES, POPULISTS, AND THE BLACK SOUTH
GLEN COVE, NY - Most people believe that with the end of Reconstruction came the end of black participation in Southern politics until the Civil Rights era starting in the…...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: CONSTITUTIONAL AMNESIA
A conservative legal scholar, who shall be nameless here, has illustrated the trouble with conservatism today: its profound ignorance of the Constitution it should be conserving. Conservatives habitually object…...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: ABORTION AND AUTHORITARIANISM
Many years ago, a friend shocked me by saying: "If my wife got pregnant now, I'd make her get an abortion." His wife, who was present, shocked me by…...
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