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Thu, August 07, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
News of the passing of Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn on August 3 brought me a flood of memories. Although I never met Mr. Solzhenitsyn, he had a profound effect on my life. He also had a ... [View Full Article]
Tue, August 05, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Henrickson
After lying dormant for more than 22 centuries, the modern Olympic Games were
launched in 1896. Held in Athens (of course!), the first modern Olympiad attracted the largest crowd ever to have ... [View Full Article]
Mon, August 04, 2008by Paul Kengor
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a great figure of the 20th century, is dead at the age of 89.
How does one adequately honor the man? It's impossible to capture in one column ... [View Full Article]
Fri, August 01, 2008by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: A longer version of this
article first appeared in American Thinker.
It was a little over five years ago, on May 1, 2003, that President George ... [View Full Article]
Wed, July 30, 2008by Marvin Folkersma, Ph.D.
Senator Obama's pre-emptive election victory tour through Europe has inspired a variety of comparisons, ranging from General Eisenhower's post-war ticker-tape procession in New York City to Bill and ... [View Full Article]
Mon, July 28, 2008by Dr. Earl H. Tilford
During his recent Middle East and European tour, Senator Barack Obama stated his strategic positions on Iraq and Afghanistan, which involves a timetable for withdrawal of most, if not all, U.S. ... [View Full Article]
Wed, July 23, 2008by Doug Bandow
The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), an omnibus treaty originally blocked by President Ronald Reagan, is back, supported by internationalist activists and profit-minded businessmen. The convention, ... [View Full Article]
Tue, July 22, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Every year, Merriam-Webster, the dictionary company, holds a vote for "Word of the Year." Don't be surprised if 2008's word is "bailout." And if they start a "Phrase of the ... [View Full Article]
Thu, July 17, 2008by Paul Kengor
On Tuesday, Barack Obama gave an address on the Iraq War. It was a bizarre speech, as if it had been written two years ago—when it would have made more sense. Liberals ought to hate the speech. It ... [View Full Article]
Wed, July 16, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Sir John Marks Templeton passed from this world on July 8. In an extraordinary life of 95 years, John Templeton was one of the world's wealthiest individuals, most successful investors, most generous ... [View Full Article]
Mon, July 14, 2008by Paul Kengor
The first time I encountered Tony Snow was through his columns for the Detroit News in the 1980s, when I was an undergraduate subscribing to a forgotten but quite good publication called Conservative ... [View Full Article]
Mon, July 14, 2008by Doug Bandow
After refusing to talk to Pyongyang for years, the Bush administration chose "appeasement"—as its own officials often deride negotiations. So far the administration's bet has paid off, but critics ... [View Full Article]
Thu, July 10, 2008by John A. Sparks, J.D.
Editor's Note: For more information, please see a previous article by
Dr. Sparks, "Seceding Virginia Parishes Win 'First Round.'"
Eleven local Virginia ... [View Full Article]
Mon, July 07, 2008by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: A longer version of this
article first appeared in American Thinker.
"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest ... [View Full Article]
Thu, July 03, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Economic growth in the United States is sluggish, and there are several reasons to be pessimistic about macroeconomic performance in the balance of 2008, if not beyond. The adjective "macroeconomic" ... [View Full Article]
Wed, July 02, 2008by Paul Kengor
"George W. Bush is a [EXPLETIVE] theocrat!"
If I had a dollar for every time I heard that over the past eight years. Having written a book on the faith of ... [View Full Article]
Tue, July 01, 2008by Dr. Jason Edwards
It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, White Christmas. When December rolls around everyone knows which movies to watch to celebrate the holidays. Sadly, America's birthday doesn't seem quite ... [View Full Article]
Tue, July 01, 2008by Warren Throckmorton
Religious conservatives can help Barack Obama win in November. Here's how: stay home or go to the voting booth and cast ballots for Obama in surprising numbers. It could happen. First, let's ... [View Full Article]
Fri, June 27, 2008by Paul Kengor
It was springtime. The year was 1969. The spirit of la revolucion was in the air.
Ms. Hillary Rodham and her Wellesley sisters sat in the crowd awaiting words of ... [View Full Article]
Thu, June 26, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Thrift used to be a virtue in America. In Asia, thrift remains a way of life—for example, it is estimated that the average Chinese family's thrift rate is 30 to 40 percent—which helps explain the ... [View Full Article]
Fri, June 20, 2008by Paul Kengor
Last week, the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College ran another of its "V&V Q&As," this one with Peter Schweizer, whom I interviewed on his new book, Makers and Takers. As noted ... [View Full Article]
Wed, June 18, 2008by Dr. Tracy Miller
An Indian government official recently criticized the Bush administration for blaming the growing middle classes of developing countries, such as India and China, for rising food prices. Although he ... [View Full Article]
Wed, June 18, 2008by Dr. Earl H. Tilford
Air power is seductive. From the Army Air Service's Col. Billy Mitchell's Winged Defense, written in the aftermath of the slaughter fields of the Great War, to U.S. Air Force Colonel John Warden's ... [View Full Article]
Thu, June 12, 2008by Paul Kengor
"Editor's Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker that we ... [View Full Article]
Thu, June 12, 2008by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article
first appeared in National Review Online.
Last week, specifically, June 5, 2008, was the 40th anniversary of ... [View Full Article]
Wed, June 11, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
"Cynical politics" may be a redundancy, but it is hard to imagine a more cynical political issue than global warming (GW). In his 1992 book Earth in the Balance, Al Gore called for a ... [View Full Article]
Mon, June 09, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Henrickson
A recent International Monetary Fund research report listed the countries expected to suffer the worst currency depreciation—that is, the worst inflation—this year. Zimbabwe (a mind-boggling 300,000 ... [View Full Article]
Tue, June 03, 2008by Paul Kengor
The Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago is a raucous place. Not long ago, during the Christmas season, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright—stepping back from his repeated proclamation that "God d--- ... [View Full Article]
Mon, June 02, 2008by Marvin Folkersma, Ph.D.
What a difference a century makes, specifically a turn of the century. Shortly after the 19th century ended, the United States had a president who was the real deal, whose honesty, sincerity and ... [View Full Article]
Thu, May 29, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
In what has become an annual ritual, the wizards of Congress are going after the leaders of Big Oil again. This is political theater at its most cynical. It's the modern version of the Salem witch ... [View Full Article]
Wed, May 28, 2008by Marvin Folkersma, Ph.D.
Political Cartoonists are national treasures. The best ones are able to distill an entire think tank's worth of commentary into a single frame or two, thus saving our country untold barrels of the ... [View Full Article]
Wed, May 28, 2008by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: This article first
appeared in American Thinker.
A couple of weeks ago, President George W. Bush gave an outstanding speech to the Knesset, the ... [View Full Article]
Fri, May 23, 2008by Paul Kengor
When it comes to "supporting the troops," some Americans have chosen some curious means of expression. Who can forget Senator Dick Durbin's (D-IL) June 2005 statement from the Senate floor, ... [View Full Article]
Thu, May 22, 2008by Dr. Earl H. Tilford
As Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary, there are voices raised accusing Israel of victimizing the Palestinian Arabs and "running them out" of the Jewish state. Ironically, some 1,300,000 ... [View Full Article]
Thu, May 15, 2008by Dr. Jason Edwards
Like swallows returning to Capistrano, spring always marks the flocking of parents with their high-school senior children to my college classroom. Nobly, parents take their charges on multiple tours ... [View Full Article]
Tue, May 13, 2008by Paul Kengor
It was 25 years ago that a remarkable effort took place concerning a small, unremarkable country at the northern tip of South America—Suriname. What happened there was quite significant but has ... [View Full Article]
Fri, May 09, 2008by Paul Kengor
A new CNN poll ranks President George W. Bush the most unpopular president in modern American history. The key figure is not Bush's 28 percent approval rating, which, though dismal, is not as poor as ... [View Full Article]
Wed, May 07, 2008by Paul Kengor
"It reminds me of the story about that little boy … in this room filled with manure."
—Hillary Clinton, April 1
As ... [View Full Article]
Mon, May 05, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Cinco de Mayo (5th of May) festivities are to Mexican-Americans what St. Patrick's Day festivities are to Irish-Americans—a joyful expression of ancestral pride and a celebration of the rich ... [View Full Article]
Fri, May 02, 2008by Dr. Gary Scott Smith
As the New Deal celebrates its 75th birthday, it is a fitting time to reflect on the context in which it occurred, its moral and spiritual underpinnings, and its aims. By significantly increasing the ... [View Full Article]
Thu, May 01, 2008by Marvin Folkersma, Ph.D.
In Oscar Wilde's most chilling work, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the cynical, aging Lord Henry exclaims to his perpetually youthful friend, "I wish I could change places with you, Dorian. The ... [View Full Article]
Tue, April 29, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
These are tough times for Colombia. The international left has the pro-American South American democracy in its crosshairs. Why? Because Colombia recently committed what leftists consider the ... [View Full Article]
Mon, April 28, 2008by Dr. Earl H. Tilford
Monday afternoon in late November 2007 at a lonely, windswept graveyard in Celina, Ohio. It took four hours to drive the 270 miles from Grove City, Pennsylvania to Celina, Ohio. That journey, for me, ... [View Full Article]
Wed, April 23, 2008by Dr. Earl H. Tilford
Within the mainline Protestant denominations there are a number of initiatives inimical to the well-being of the nation of Israel, including a divestment initiative to be considered at the annual ... [View Full Article]
Mon, April 21, 2008by Paul Kengor
Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 22, is the big day: the crucial Pennsylvania Primary. It happens here, in my home state, at polling places in big cities like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, medium-sized cities ... [View Full Article]
Fri, April 18, 2008by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker that we ... [View Full Article]
Thu, April 17, 2008by Paul Kengor
"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life…. n my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed…."
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Wed, April 16, 2008by Warren Throckmorton
Barack Obama has a way with words. They trip lightly from his tongue, and some onlookers have swooned during his oratory. No one doubts his speechmaking ability. When opining off-the-cuff, however, ... [View Full Article]
Tue, April 15, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Thank you, Rahm Emanuel! Mr. Emanuel, a Democratic congressman from Illinois and former senior policy adviser to President Clinton, recently published several election-year policy proposals on the ... [View Full Article]
Sat, April 12, 2008by Doug Bandow
The recent NATO summit convened with Georgia and Ukraine lobbying the alliance to continue its steady eastern march. But this process is undermining, not improving, U.S. security.
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Wed, April 09, 2008by John A. Sparks
The 12 Virginia Episcopal congregations that voted to leave the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. (ECUSA) and its Virginia Diocese in late 2006 and early 2007 have been successful in the first round of ... [View Full Article]
Mon, April 07, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
March 2008 may go down as a major turning point in U.S. financial history. The Federal Reserve crossed a Rubicon of sorts, lending tens of billions of dollars, not to a commercial bank, as has been ... [View Full Article]
Fri, April 04, 2008by Paul Kengor
V&V: Dr. Sparks, among the variety of issues we're examining in our fourth annual conference, "Church & State in 2008," are the increasingly common and controversial disputes over church ... [View Full Article]
Thu, April 03, 2008by Paul Kengor
There's a remarkable article in the current Time magazine by Bob Geldof, musician and activist, regarding a recent trip he made to Africa with President George W. Bush. Geldof, a liberal, disagrees ... [View Full Article]
Mon, March 31, 2008by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinionmaker ... [View Full Article]
Fri, March 28, 2008by Dr. Earl H. Tilford
For a generation after World War II, particularly given revelations of the Holocaust, most American Protestant denominations embraced a more tolerant attitude toward Jews. Since the 1980s, however, ... [View Full Article]
Fri, February 22, 2008by Paul Kengor
On June 28, 1389 the Serbs lost to the Ottomans at Kosovo Field in the Battle of Kosovo. This began a 500-plus year dominance by the Ottoman Turks in Central Europe, and particularly in that powder ... [View Full Article]
Fri, February 22, 2008by Doug Bandow
Kosovo has declared independence from Serbia, with American support. The process is likely to be both divisive and destabilizing.
The United States has no intrinsic ... [View Full Article]
Fri, February 22, 2008by Dr. Gary Scott Smith
On July 9, 1755, the "most catastrophic" day in Anglo-American history, Colonel George Washington was traveling with General Edward Braddock's army toward Fort Duquesne when they were ... [View Full Article]
Wed, February 20, 2008by Marvin Folkersma, Ph.D.
Exactly 218 years ago in February 1790, a group of Quaker representatives submitted petitions to the House of Representatives to end the slave trade immediately, an action that sent Representative ... [View Full Article]
Tue, February 19, 2008by Policy Brief
Editor's Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker that we ... [View Full Article]
Mon, February 18, 2008by Dr. Gary Scott Smith
As we celebrate Presidents' Day in 2008, we are in the midst of campaigns to select Democratic and Republican nominees for president. Recognizing that George W. Bush's candid discussion of his faith ... [View Full Article]
Fri, February 15, 2008by Paul Kengor
The website LifeNews.com has posted some interesting exit-poll data related to Republicans voters in last Tuesday's Potomac Primaries. In both Virginia and the more liberal Maryland, Republican ... [View Full Article]
Fri, February 15, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Are you excited about Presidents' Day? Neither am I. It's hard to think of a less inspiring, more perfunctory "holiday." To most Americans, its only significance is that the banks and post ... [View Full Article]
Fri, February 08, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
No, I am not getting ready to join the ranks of those clever economists and
financial prognosticators who periodically cop a book deal by peddling a hyped-up title that feeds our perverse ... [View Full Article]
Thu, February 07, 2008by Dr. Jim Thrasher
$2,700,000 for 30 seconds of air time for Super Bowl XLII? That price tag is enough to make your heart jump right out of your chest!
Sunday night the heart that jumped out with an "I ... [View Full Article]
Fri, February 01, 2008by Doug Bandow
Mao Zedong became the symbol of China's communist revolution: leading the famed Long March, proclaiming the new People's Republic of China (PRC), meeting Richard Nixon to open a dialogue between the ... [View Full Article]
Thu, January 31, 2008by Marvin Folkersma, Ph.D.
When Barack Obama burst onto the national scene after his victory in the Iowa caucuses, many felt that a breath of fresh air was sweeping across the land, one that also gave the Clintons the chills. ... [View Full Article]
Tue, January 29, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
There has been vigorous debate about whether the U.S. Senate should ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS, also known as the Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST by its ... [View Full Article]
Fri, January 25, 2008by Marvin Folkersma, Ph.D.
If word association and body language were the principal criteria to judge the current crop of Democratic candidates, then Barack Obama would win the most vacuous campaign slogan award—I want ... [View Full Article]
Thu, January 24, 2008by Todd Malan
In the debate over leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike, it's about time people stopped using the word "foreign" as if it were an expletive.
Gov. Ed Rendell's ... [View Full Article]
Tue, January 22, 2008by Paul Kengor
America this week marks the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The court case is frequently a matter of debate, especially the breathtaking judicial logic on which it is based. The constitutionality of ... [View Full Article]
Tue, January 22, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
The dreaded "R" word—recession—is in on the tip of many tongues right now. Are we in a recession? Far be it from me to trespass on the sacred territory of the official keepers of economic ... [View Full Article]
Fri, January 18, 2008by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: In this special "V&V Q&A" remarking upon the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Dr. Warren Throckmorton, a respected national voice on the abortion issue and a fellow at the ... [View Full Article]
Wed, January 16, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Let's consider a simple question: What exactly are we electing when we choose a president of the United States? The traditional answer would be: "Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces and the CEO of ... [View Full Article]
Mon, January 14, 2008by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Gold has opened 2008 with a bang. The price of the yellow metal has soared to
all-time nominal highs, surpassing $900 per ounce. "So what?" you may ask. "Unless one works for a ... [View Full Article]
Thu, January 10, 2008by Dr. Earl H. Tilford
According to recent intelligence reports, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) killed 40 Hamas terrorists in Gaza this past December without inflicting a single civilian casualty. In fact, over the past ... [View Full Article]
Thu, January 10, 2008by Dr. Daniel S. Brown
Political pundits took to the airwaves and their ink-wells after Hillary Clinton surprised the press by posting a first-place finish in New Hampshire this week. The talking heads have credited ... [View Full Article]
Thu, January 10, 2008by Doug Bandow
The Bush administration has badly botched U.S. foreign policy. But the administration isn't finished: Another potential crisis looms in Kosovo.
The latest ... [View Full Article]
Thu, January 03, 2008by Dr. Joseph Horton
The New Year is here. It is time for the annual ritual of resolving to improve ourselves. The joke of course is that New Year's resolutions rarely last beyond January. At our local YMCA one can ... [View Full Article]
Fri, December 28, 2007by Paul Kengor
The media is so obsessed with anniversaries that it almost seems a news story when the media misses an anniversary. That appears to be the case as December 2007 drifts away with no fanfare for a ... [View Full Article]
Thu, December 27, 2007by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
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The U.S. housing market is hurting, as you undoubtedly know. Home foreclosures are the highest since record-keeping began 35 years ago. 1.69 percent of ... [View Full Article]
Fri, December 21, 2007by Paul Kengor
It is a statement of the obvious—both trite and troublesome—to acknowledge that most children today generally receive more than they need at Christmas, especially compared to children of times past, ... [View Full Article]
Wed, December 19, 2007by Dr. Joseph Horton
A mother who has been taking medication finds that she is pregnant. She is told by her physician that the fetus has surely been irreversibly damaged. Her physician encourages her to have an abortion. ... [View Full Article]
Mon, December 17, 2007by Dr. Gary Scott Smith
Heaven. Does it exist? If so, what is it like and how do people gain admittance? While interest in these questions has been greater in some eras and places than others, human beings have pondered and ... [View Full Article]
Fri, December 14, 2007by Dr. Gary Scott Smith
In a recent radio interview I was asked the hypothetical question "If you had to choose between candidate A who did not profess to be a Christian but had extensive political experience and ... [View Full Article]
Fri, December 14, 2007by Paul Kengor
V&V: Dr. Kengor, we left off with you listing some of the revelations in your new biography of Bill Clark, "The Judge: William P. Clark, Ronald Reagan's Top Hand," and promising to pick up with the ... [View Full Article]
Fri, December 14, 2007by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker that we ... [View Full Article]
Tue, December 11, 2007by Warren Throckmorton
Given the decision-making power of Santa Claus on the matter of gifts, my children make sure they leave Mr. Claus some seriously good cookies on Christmas Eve. However, most children don't know that ... [View Full Article]
Mon, December 10, 2007by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication and a regular feature from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. In this latest edition, the Center interviews its own executive ... [View Full Article]
Mon, December 10, 2007by Paul Kengor
V&V: Dr. Kengor, you've written, along with co-author Patricia Clark Doerner, a biography of Judge William P. "Bill" Clark. This is the biography of the man that everyone—from Edmund Morris and Lou ... [View Full Article]
Tue, December 04, 2007by Sylvain Charat
"One man with one gun can control one hundred without one," Lenin once said. The man who gave birth to Soviet Russia believed that strength is first and foremost a means of control, not of war. ... [View Full Article]
Fri, November 30, 2007by Paul Kengor
"Look, Charlie Brown, we all know Christmas is a big commercial racket."
-Linus
Every year my family eagerly awaits the annual broadcast of the classic 1965 Peanuts special, "A ... [View Full Article]
Thu, November 29, 2007by Lee Wishing, III
With the price of oil approaching $100 per barrel, my brother-in-law traded in a small SUV for a large SUV. What was he thinking?
My brother-in-law is a college ... [View Full Article]
Tue, November 27, 2007by Doug Bandow
Accountability has been long in coming to Cambodia. Thirty-two years after the Khmer Rouge seized power and unleashed horrific slaughter upon the Cambodian people, ... [View Full Article]
Fri, November 23, 2007by Sylvain Charat
"The United States and France are two nations that remain true to the same ideal, that defend the same principles, that believe in the same values." At last! French President Nicolas Sarkozy ... [View Full Article]
Wed, November 21, 2007by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday. It fuses the secular and the sacred—that special synthesis that forms our national identity. Our celebration of a Day of Thanksgiving ... [View Full Article]
Wed, November 21, 2007by Dr. Gary Scott Smith
In November 1620, 102 English Pilgrims arrived at Cape Cod after an arduous 66-day voyage across the Atlantic. The first winter, half of their company died. Nevertheless, after the residents of ... [View Full Article]
Fri, November 16, 2007by Lee Wishing, III
Did you remember to buy a present for your boss last month on Boss's Day? The teachers of the Susquehanna Township School District in central Pennsylvania didn't experience the embarrassment of ... [View Full Article]
Fri, November 16, 2007by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Americans are hoping and praying for relief from rising gasoline, oil and electricity prices. We are uncomfortable importing so much of our raw energy supplies from unstable parts of the world. Many ... [View Full Article]
Wed, November 14, 2007by Doug Bandow
The Beijing Olympics are less than a year away. While China's extensive construction program is well underway, the People's Republic of China (PRC) is retreating from its promise to the International ... [View Full Article]
Thu, November 08, 2007by Dr. Gary Scott Smith
The next presidential election is one year away. In 2004 evangelicals voted for George W. Bush by a ratio of nearly 4-to-1 and seemed poised to have a major impact on Bush's second administration. ... [View Full Article]
Thu, November 08, 2007by Dr. Earl H. Tilford
Recently, after giving back examinations in one of my classes, one student upon receiving a failing grade, laughed, showed the exam to students on each side, and laughed again. Former Alabama ... [View Full Article]
Fri, November 02, 2007by Warren Throckmorton
Sometimes my teenage daughter reacts to my wise sayings with her own form of wisdom. She says, "You know, sometimes, you just say words." Although I am not completely sure my translation is correct, ... [View Full Article]
Thu, November 01, 2007by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
"Hairspray"—the film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name—is trite and formulaic. Some of its key characters are mere caricatures. I can't remember the words or melody of any of its ... [View Full Article]
Mon, October 29, 2007by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker that we ... [View Full Article]
Fri, October 26, 2007by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker that we ... [View Full Article]
Thu, October 25, 2007by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker ... [View Full Article]
Wed, October 24, 2007by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker that we ... [View Full Article]
Sat, October 20, 2007by Paul Kengor
"I certainly hope that Hillary is the candidate [in 2008]—because nothing will energize my [constituency] like Hillary Clinton. If Lucifer ran, he wouldn't." That was the assessment of the ... [View Full Article]
Sat, October 20, 2007by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker ... [View Full Article]
Sat, October 20, 2007by Dr. Gary Scott Smith
Browse the internet and you will find hundreds of sites and essays debating whether the United States is a Christian nation. Many claim that the mixture of religion and politics is volatile, and no ... [View Full Article]
Fri, October 19, 2007by Dr. Earl H. Tilford
"The man who runs away will fight again."
- Menander, 303 B.C.
In April 1972, with North Vietnamese forces advancing as part of their Nguyen Hue Offensive, ... [View Full Article]
Fri, October 19, 2007by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Illegal immigration is one of our country's most divisive, intractable issues. The Simpson-Mazzoli Act of 1986 was supposed to solve it, but illegal immigration has continued to increase. This ... [View Full Article]
Wed, October 17, 2007by Lawrence W. Reed
I walked into a restaurant in Florida recently and said, "Nonsmoking table for two,please." The greeter replied, "All restaurants in Florida are nonsmoking by law."
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Mon, October 15, 2007by Dr. Tracy Miller
Editor's Note: Reflecting the breadth and depth of top-notch scholarship being pursued by the faculty of Grove City College, the Center for Vision & Values is pleased to release the fifth in a series ... [View Full Article]
Fri, October 12, 2007by Dr. Tracy Miller
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As Congress haggles over the farm bill, it is time again to consider updating the legislation. The Agriculture Adjustment Act, passed "to relieve the … national economic emergency" of the ... [View Full Article]
Wed, October 10, 2007by Paul Kengor
I'm typically not prone to conspiracy theories. Yet, I have reason to suspect that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama may be coordinating their campaign strategies. This is especially apparent in their ... [View Full Article]
Fri, October 05, 2007by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Protectionists claim that free trade is bad for America—that increasing imports of goods means increasing exports of jobs, thereby gutting our economy. This ... [View Full Article]
Fri, October 05, 2007by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Last week, the United Auto Workers union (UAW) called its first strike against General Motors (GM) in thirty-seven years. The strike was over in two days when negotiators approved a new contract ... [View Full Article]
Thu, October 04, 2007by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
The case for free trade rests on a simple principle: people should be free to buy from whomever they choose, even if the supplier is a foreigner. The opponents of free trade believe that there are ... [View Full Article]
Wed, October 03, 2007by Dr. Earl H. Tilford
Back in the early 1970s I served as an Air Force intelligence officer at Udorn Air Base in Thailand, home of the 432nd Tactical Fighter Reconnaissance Wing. Most of the bombing in 1970 and 1971 ... [View Full Article]
Fri, September 28, 2007by Dr. Gary Scott Smith
October 4 marks the 50th anniversary of the Soviet launch of Sputnik, an event that caused profound shock and panic verging on hysteria in the United States. Newsweek declared that Sputnik ... [View Full Article]
Thu, September 27, 2007by Paul Kengor
The U.S. visit of Iranian theocrat-despot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has prompted some
strange statements from critics of the war in Iraq. Specifically, it is confusing to hear that George W. Bush ... [View Full Article]
Thu, September 20, 2007by Shawn Ritenour, Ph.D.
Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, is a better historian of economic thought than monetary theorist. In reference to the current financial turmoil he is quoted as saying that classic ... [View Full Article]
Wed, September 19, 2007by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
In 2005, the Center for Vision and Values hosted a conference about poverty in the United States and different approaches to alleviating ... [View Full Article]
Mon, September 17, 2007by News Release
(Editor's Note), the Center sits down with its own executive director, Dr. Paul
Kengor, to discuss his latest book, "God and Hillary Clinton: A Spiritual Life." Dr. Kengor is also a ... [View Full Article]
Fri, September 14, 2007by Marvin Folkersma, Ph.D.
In 1857 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down what has since been regarded as one of its most notorious decisions. In Dred Scott v. Sandford, Chief Justice Roger Taney delivered the opinion of the ... [View Full Article]
Fri, September 14, 2007by Paul Kengor
Jane Wyman died on Monday at the age of 90, one of the few holdovers from Hollywood's Golden Age. In the public's eye, she is best known for her roster of celebrated films and, unfortunately, for her ... [View Full Article]
Mon, September 10, 2007by Dr. Michael Coulter
One of the often overlooked features of the U.S. Constitution is the minimal qualifications for running for office. The Constitution says that any natural-born citizen—male or female—over the age of ... [View Full Article]
Mon, September 10, 2007by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
As the Twin Cities struggle to return to normalcy in the aftermath of the collapse of the bridge along I-35, we will be subjected to the unseemly spectacle of politicians pointing fingers at each ... [View Full Article]
Mon, September 10, 2007by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
In a recent column, I warned that private liberal arts colleges must adapt if they wish to survive and thrive in today's economy. In making the point that they need to repackage the liberal arts ... [View Full Article]
Fri, September 07, 2007by Doug Bandow
"MATCHING GIFT CAMPAIGN DEADLINE," headlined the direct mail letter from Amnesty International. Executive Director Larry Cox said, "I can't stress strongly enough how important it is for Amnesty ... [View Full Article]
Thu, September 06, 2007by Doug Bandow
Thailand is a warm, welcoming society. A majority Buddhist nation, Thailand leaves religious minorities alone.
Yet Bangkok's policy of religious tolerance is coming ... [View Full Article]
Tue, September 04, 2007by Paul Kengor
Editor's Note: In this latest edition of the "V&V Q&A," the executive director of the Center for Vision & Values, Dr. Paul Kengor, interviews Joe Loconte, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public ... [View Full Article]
Mon, August 27, 2007by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
Recently ("Exchange-Rate Politics," July 23), I warned that U.S. senators were playing with fire by trying to strong-arm China into speeding up the rate at which the yuan strengthens ... [View Full Article]
Mon, August 20, 2007by Jerod Patterson
Few would bat an eye at recent news of an evangelical pastor and fellow Christian conservatives engaged in a political fight in Iowa. But there's a twist to this story. The Christian conservatives ... [View Full Article]
Thu, August 16, 2007by Paul Kengor
As summer nears a close, I must express frustration over a problem that worsens for us each summer as our family grows, and which I imagine also frustrates other families our size.
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Thu, August 16, 2007by Dr. Earl H. Tilford
In early August, members of the Witherspoon Society, a "progressive" religious advocacy group affiliated with the Presbyterian Church USA, attended the "Ghost Ranch Week of Peace" in rural New ... [View Full Article]
Thu, August 16, 2007by Marvin Folkersma, Ph.D.
Just when you think it's impossible to improve on the bar scene in Star Wars, the House of Representatives ends its summer session with a script that would have put Steven Spielberg to shame. ... [View Full Article]
Mon, August 13, 2007by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
I first encountered the libertarian philosophy almost 30 years ago. Back then, I had high hopes that the libertarian movement would expand and generate an intellectual, moral, and political reform, ... [View Full Article]