DR. GILLIS J HARP: WHO IS AYN RAND? JENNIFER BURNS’ BRILLIANT NEW BIOGRAPHY
“Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right” By Jennifer Burns | Oxford University Press, USA (October 2009) | 384 pp. | List Price: $27.95 Prior to the…...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
DR. EARL TILFORD: STRATEGIC MISSTEP, TWO-STEP, SETUP OR PRELUDE TO MELTDOWN?
On Thursday, March 11, during Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel to herald the re-initiation of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Israel’s Interior Ministry announced the construction of 1,600 housing units in…...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
DR. PAUL KENGOR: GOD GETS HIS HEALTHCARE BILL
Editor’s note: This is one of many coming articles from The Center for Vision & Values dealing with the topic of our April 15-16 conference on “The Progressives.” Click here…...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
DR. SHAWN RITENOUR AND DR. PAUL KENGOR: GOD, SOCIALISM, AND THE FREE MARKET
Editor’s Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. This latest edition of “V&V Q&A” is an intriguing look at…...
Monday, March 15, 2010
DR. GARY SCOTT SMITH AND DR. J.D. WYNEKEN: THE CHURCH AND THE SOCIAL GOSPEL
Should churches and individual Christians seek to help people with material problems and social needs, remedy social ills, and improve social institutions? Throughout history many congregations, Christian organizations, and individual…...
Friday, March 12, 2010
DR. PAUL KENGOR: GORBACHEV VS. THE EVIL EMPIRE
The media jumps at anniversaries of historical figures and events. For those of us who write about history, we, too, seize these opportunities to teach history, especially history Americans should…...
Monday, March 08, 2010
DR. PAUL KENGOR: IN MEMORIAM - THE BEICHMAN LIBRARY CLOSES
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared in The American Spectator. Some 2,000 years ago, the great Ancient Library in Alexandria, Egypt burnt to the ground, taking…...
Friday, March 05, 2010
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: THE GOVERNING ELITE VS. THE REST OF US
The truly revolutionary American idea of government as the servant of the people may be fading away. Many of today’s so-called “civil servants” are a protected, privileged class. While Middle…...
Thursday, March 04, 2010
DR. MARVIN FOLKERTSMA: THE POLITICS OF ARROGANCE
On the eve of the German offensive against France in August 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm confidently asserted to some departing troops, “You will be home before the leaves have fallen from…...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
DR. PAUL KENGOR: HILLARY CLINTON AND THE MOTHER TERESA HOME FOR INFANT CHILDREN
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared in The Weekly Standard. A few years ago, I wrote a book on the faith of Hillary Clinton. Released in…...
Thursday, February 25, 2010
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: THE STUDENT LOAN PROBLEM
You may have seen the recent story about the 41-year-old doctor who graduated from medical school in 2003 with student-loan indebtedness of $250,000 that has since swelled to more than…...
Monday, February 22, 2010
DR. PAUL KENGOR: IN MEMORIAM - AL HAIG’S CHARGE
Alexander Haig passed away over the weekend at the age of 85. A military man, a war veteran, no less than a four-star general, a chief of staff to two…...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
PAUL KENGOR: Q&A ON THE OURTRAGEOUS PUBLIC DEBT
Editor’s Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. In this latest Q&A, Dr. Paul Kengor, executive director of the…...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
DR. GARY SCOTT SMITH: THE CHARACTER OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
What made George Washington the most remarkable man of an extraordinary generation? He was not an intellectual giant like Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, or James Madison. Compared with…...
Monday, February 15, 2010
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON- ECONOCLASTS: A BOOK REVIEW
"Econoclasts: The Rebels Who Sparked the Supply-Side Revolution and Restored American Prosperity" By Brian Domitrovic | ISI Books (August 2009) | 368 pp. | List Price: $27.95 Brian Domitrovic, assistant…...
Monday, February 08, 2010
DR. PAUL KENGOR: GOD AND MAN AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST
President Obama spoke yesterday at the National Prayer Breakfast. I’ve long studied the sitting president’s remarks at these breakfasts, particularly President George W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, and President Ronald…...
Thursday, February 04, 2010
DR. L. JOHN VAN TIL: A REVIEW OF “GOING ROGUE: AN AMERICAN LIFE”
"Going Rogue: An American Life" By Sarah Palin | HarperCollins (November 2009) | 432 pp. | List Price: $28.99 Most likely, millions of copies of Going Rogue have been sold in…...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
DR. PAUL KENGOR: TAXPAYERS FUND ABORTIONS BUT NOT SCHOOL VOUCHERS
In my last article, a somber remembrance of Roe v. Wade, I called attention to something that shocked readers: I noted that the Obama administration and Democratic Congress “rejected funding…...
Friday, January 29, 2010
DR. JOHN A. SPARKS: FREEDOM OF POLITICAL SPEECH RESTORED - CITIZENS UNITED V. OBAMA
Suppose you were arrested on criminal charges because you were the head of an organization that had produced a film critical of the wife of a former political leader, who…...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
DR. L. JOHN VAN TIL : WHAT’S IN A WORD? DISSECTING THE “MIDDLE CLASS” AND “POPULISM”
Each day, political claims and terminology—astonishing or at least remarkable—pop up in the media. Consider two such current terms: “middle class” and “populism.” In the wake of the Massachusetts senatorial…...
Thursday, January 21, 2010
PAUL KENGOR: REMEMBERING ROE: A FORGOTTEN WARNING FROM RONALD REAGAN
Given the somber anniversary of Roe v. Wade—source of 40 million abortions since 1973—I thought I’d share an excellent but forgotten speech by President Ronald Reagan. The speechwriter was Peter…...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: OBAMA’S ANTI-JOBS POLICY
High and/or rising unemployment is always a political liability for a president, and so Barack Obama has taken the offensive in trying to persuade the American people that his team…...
Monday, January 11, 2010
DR. JOHN A. SPARKS: BULLDOZED IN NEW LONDON: THE LATEST ON KELO AND EMINENT DOMAIN
Pfizer, the huge drug company, has announced that it will be leaving a large research complex in New London, Connecticut and moving several hundred jobs to nearby Groton. Such belt-tightening…...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
DR. PAUL KENGOR: HANGING MAO ON THE TREE?
I’ll begin this article with a few justifications to try to preempt irate emails from Obama supporters: First off, I write on faith, politics, and the presidency, having done books…...
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: CLIMATEGATE, COPENHAGEN AND CAP & TRADE
2009 ended with a flurry of important events on the climate-change front. In November, the Climategate scandal broke. An anonymous whistle-blower released over 1,000 e-mails from key scientists (both British…...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
DR. PAUL KENGOR: A CANDLE FOR IRAN? - A REAGAN LESSON FOR OBAMA
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at American Thinker. Twice in this space last summer, I wrote about Iran -- specifically, the dramatic June protests against…...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: COMBATING RECESSIONS - THE SEARCH FOR THE RIGHT MACROECONOMIC POLICY
What should governments do to combat recessions? In the United States, before the Great Depression of the 1930s, the answer was “very little.” Of course, the federal government was much…...
Thursday, December 17, 2009
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: JEFFERSON’S WARNINGS ABOUT MONEY AND BANKS
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy hosted a dinner for 49 Nobel laureates. The occasion provided the opportunity for JFK to display his keen wit in the memorable quote, “I…...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
DR. PAUL KENGOR: O’ UNITY TREE, O’ UNITY TREE
Tis the season…. That is, to not refer to the Christmas Season as the “Christmas Season.” Of course, that’s old news. But what’s new news, or recent news, is the…...
Friday, December 11, 2009
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: ADAM SMITH’S - THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS
2009 marks the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith's masterful treatise on ethics, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Smith, primarily known today for his hugely influential 1776 work…...
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