Commenter Jaime A. Headden writes: So, Jason, let’s try and consider what taking “marriage� off the books and simply replacing that term with another less loaded one? What do you think would happen, as a thought experiment? I hate to do this, but I feel like I have to restate the question in a...

Put that book on my reading list! Nicholas Wolterstorff “is the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,” and his new book from Princeton University Press will probably make about as serious an ...

The story, with action, romance and sci-fi overtones, sees Matt Damon playing a politician who falls for a ballerina only to find mysterious forces keeping the two apart. That sounds about right when you add that it is loosely based on the work of Philip K. Dick. It doesn’t sound quite right a...

It looks like all the big names in Hollywood are interested in tackling science fiction these days. The latest to take the plunge is Matt Damon, who Variety reports will be starring in (we won’t count “Titan A.E.”) “The Adjustment Bureau”, a contemporary love story loos...

Before I get into the Census Bureau's estimates for the number of at-home dads in 2008, I need to acknowledge the fact that I totally missed the estimate for 2007. For some reason, I never saw the number, which was buried in this Excel spreadsheet. I don't feel terrible about it; the Census Bureau a...

At American Creation my friend Tom Van Dyke points to the learned Joseph Story’s commentaries on the Constitution and religion. To his credit, Van Dyke gives us a long excerpt from Story, so we can read it in context. You can read the original here. Included in the longer except is the quotati...

Craig Montielh, a 46-year-old father of three, said Thursday that he worked as an FBI informant uncovering suspected terrorist plots. The Irvine man came forward saying he fears for his life because people may think he is a terrorist. He says his four-year investigation led to one arrest and seven o...

Phillip K. Dick’s Adjustment Team is coming to the movies - at least providing some brave studio is willing to take a punt on a Matt Damon sci-fi romance movie. So, no question then. This will get snapped up, recession or no recession. According to Variety, the proposed movie version has been ...

That was the title of one of Andrew Sullivan’s recent posts warning against the extremes of secularism. Yet, many of us are also wary of the extremes of sectarian religious politics (of the “Christian” or “Judeo-Christian” sort). I endorse a softer secularism. And if it...

This post focuses on the notion oft-repeated in Founding era political pulpits that the Ancient Israelites had a “republic.” The Biblical record does not teach this. Such a notion is wholly a product of Enlightenment rationalism, not of historic orthodox biblical Christianity. And that&#...