Publications

To the Rescue, Again

George Weigel

The calendar pages turn, Lent unfolds  —  and once again, God comes to the rescue of our humanity. That is…

Uncategorized

Syndicated Column / April 4, 2007

Missing the Point

Yuval Levin

In January, the House of Representatives passed a bill to overturn President Bush’s embryonic-stem-cell funding policy. Sponsored by Democrat Diana…

Uncategorized

National Review Online / April 9, 2007

Title Bout

Stanley Kurtz

In the fall of 2001, Middle East scholar Martin Kramer published Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern…

Uncategorized

National Review Online / April 2, 2007

Kitsch on Capitol Hill

Ernest W. Lefever

My first visit to Washington, D.C. was as a child in the early 1930s. Holding my father’s hand, I vividly recall…

Uncategorized

The Weekly Standard / March 30, 2007

What Should Be a Culture of Enterprise in an Age of Globalization?

John D. Mueller

The Intercollegiate Studies and Cato Institutes deserve our thanks for this conference posing the question, “What Should Be a Culture of Enterprise in an Age of Globalization?” But I think we must start with a prior question: Isn’t “culture of enterprise” really an oxymoron?

Articles

 

Lent and the Modern Martyrs

George Weigel

Last September, on a lovely afternoon during what Poles call “Golden September,” a friend took my wife and me to…

Uncategorized

Syndicated Column / March 21, 2007

Assimilation Studies, Part II

Stanley Kurtz

**This is the second part of a two-part essay. Click here to read the first part.** The practice of cousin…

Uncategorized

National Review Online / March 22, 2007

Death of a Hero

James Bowman

Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy by David Crane, Knopf, 592 pp., $30. Right at the…

Uncategorized

Assimilation Studies

Stanley Kurtz

A preference for marriage with cousins characterizes large sections of the Muslim world. In two previous pieces, “Marriage and the…

Uncategorized

National Review Online / March 21, 2007

Presidential Spring Training

George Weigel

In late December 1959, Senator John F. Kennedy was annoyed by a news report that he was committed to running…

Uncategorized

Syndicated Column / March 14, 2007

The Enemy D'Souza Knows

Stanley Kurtz

**Over the course of four days this week, Dinesh D’Souza has been responding at NRO to conservative critics of his…

Uncategorized

 

Carl Sagan’s Scientific Search for God, Revisited

Ernest W. Lefever

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for GodBy Carl Sagan, Penguin Press, $27.95, 284 pages….

Uncategorized

The Washington Times / March 18, 2007