One of the points defenders of traditional marriage make is that marriage is, first and foremost, about creating and raising children. It’s not, despite what many proponents of gay marriage contend, about an expression of love. You don’t need marriage for that. While obviously you don’t need marriage to create or raise children, your chances [...]
Philip Howard has written the best commentary I have read in a long time. It isn’t about economics, the second amendment or foreign affairs and it’s only partially about politics. I think he absolutely nailed the biggest problem in our culture over the last several decades: the loss of freedom in the the little decisions [...]
I think Bill Bennett once said “Politics is what we do. Culture is the air we breathe.”
I was reminded of that recently when I read a piece by Jason Lee Steorts at National Review. He made the following remark:
It would be unfair in the extreme to deny that many young, educated voters have reflected thoughtfully [...]
Many people have an instinctive reaction about Obama that makes them think there is something worrisome about his worldview. Understandably, in the age of terrorism, they look to his thin resume on national security issues and his habit of cavorting with anti-American leftists, and focus on that as the source of their anxiety. While that [...]