Politics

David Brooks offers some tips for those running for President in 2004. Noteworthy among them is this: Don’t worry about respectable opinion. If you read the best newspapers and magazines in the country, you will get the impression that SUVs are decadent and McMansions are vulgar. But millions of Americans love SUVs and buy McMansions … Read more

Pat Buchanan is always a pariah, but occasionally he has some good things to say. This article in The Atlantic evaluates whether or not (and how, possibly) Bush can be beaten in 2004. Read it.

I’ve got mixed feelings about the saga going on down in Alabama with Chief Justice Roy Moore. In case you haven’t heard about it, Justice Moore is fighting a US Supreme Court order to remove the monument of the Ten Commandments he placed in the rotunda at the Alabama Supreme Court. On one hand, I … Read more

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Well, not exactly, but you wouldn’t know that by the show the Dixie Chicks continue to put on. They were seen recently at a Senate hearing whining about their freedoms being violated because radio stations nationwide turned them off. The article says that at the hearing, “Sen. … Read more

Russell D. Moore has a new article on the Lawrence v. Texas decision that offers an interesting perspective: The gospel of gay liberation is everywhere—and it is increasingly adopted without question. For younger generations of Americans, a traditionalist view of marriage is the moral equivalent of a segregationist view of race relations. Legislation is important, … Read more