As Israel struggles to stay afloat beneath the nearly universal condemnation of its conduct in the recent flotilla incident, I can’t help wondering: When did racism suddenly become so socially acceptable - and even fashionable - in the U.S.?
To be sure, the decades-long struggle between Israel, Palestine, and the rest of the world is [...]
Matt Lewis interviewed me on his podcast today:
http://www.mattlewis.org/?p=2908
We talked about The Evangelical Outpost, the piece I wrote for CNN last year, the fading influence of Conservatism’s intellectual tradition, and Proud to Be Right, the book I’ve been working on with Jonah Goldberg and Adam Bellow. Please take a few moments to [...]
Monday, February 22, 2010
Relations between the United States and the Middle East have always been complicated. Given that the Middle East enjoys complicated relationships with every other region in the world as well-including itself-this should come as no surprise.
On 9/11, however, many Americans were surprised. In the days just after the attack laymen and newscasters alike tried to [...]
Thursday, January 7, 2010
The FDA will soon release its latest findings on the plastic-strengthening chemical, bisphenol A (BPA). As I’ve written before, BPA’s supposed health risks have been highly publicized to the benefit of both businessmen and politicians-so much to their benefit, in fact, that it would be hard to believe all the rumors even if the FDA, [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Remember this post about PETA’s fishy fundraising scheme? I’m not the only one who noticed. Apparently PETA is just as selective with its corporate friends as with its animal friends. From Human Events:
Americans know the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for its wild publicity stunts in the name of protecting cows, chickens, and [...]
Monday, September 7, 2009
When scientific evidence becomes a commodity, it is cheapened and easily misused, making it difficult for anyone to sort life-saving facts from fiction. Remember this story about the “scientifically based” scare tactics used to market Bisphenol A -free plastics? Thanks to the efforts of Fenton Communications, the liberal marketing firm behind the “General Betray Us” [...]
“If they told you that a murderer was to be released into your neighborhood, how would you feel? But what if this time, they weren’t just releasing one, but forty thousand?”
-A survivor of the Rwandan genocide
As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda, Catherine Claire Larson’s new book, addresses this and other questions raised [...]
Remember when PETA was just a weird fringe group? They’re still a weird group, but thanks to the increasing popularity of the animal rights movement, PETA is now much more mainstream. And they’re very wealthy.
So wealthy, in fact, that they’ve managed to not only thrive but expand during the recent economic troubles. How have they [...]