Listen: The Separation of X and State

Post author By Redactor
Post date September 24, 2022
No Comments on Listen: The Separation of X and State

Paul reviews the big stories of the week, focusing on readers’ comments:

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Pay the Boatman
SharingAttack the outsider — the first resort of the unarmed arguer. My Townhall …
The Oklahoma Three, Free at Last
SharingIt seemed hardly necessary. The handcuffs and leg-irons, I mean. I wasn’t …
Video: Paul Jacob on Nelson Mandela and Peaceful Change
SharingThis was recorded a few weeks ago, before the death of …
Why Congress Can’t Read
SharingThey don’t read. No one reads the legislation Congress passes, not …
People With Influence?
SharingLate summer primaries, then September primaries — before you know it, November’s …

Abolish. Or Set in Stone
November 13, 2024
Paul Jacob knows what to do with hypocrisy on at …Read More »
Destroying Dane Farming
November 12, 2024
Paul Jacob on Europe’s ongoing suicide over “greenhouse gases.”Read More »
Disaster Relief Pass-Over
November 11, 2024
Paul Jacob on partisanship at FEMA.Read More »
Exemplary Rejections
November 8, 2024
Paul Jacob celebrates voters in three states who protected their …Read More »
Not Now
November 7, 2024
Paul Jacob on political lessons to be learned — or …Read More »

Trouble Over Term Limits
SharingAmericans are hardly alone in strongly supporting term limits. All …
Corporate Domination?
SharingWhile Californians celebrated the centennial of their initiative and referendum, …
Competition in Michigan
SharingMichigan’s career politicians are pushing to more than double maximum …
Democratic-Republican Day
Sharing“We live in a republic,” I often hear, “not a democracy!” Sometimes it …
Our Experience with Experience
SharingIt seems exceedingly plausible that the longer one serves as …

Don’t Think Different
SharingWhat do we know for sure about the resignation of …
Are Democrats Socialists?
SharingDoes it matter that the chair of the Democratic National …
Why Do You Want People to Starve?
SharingIn the 20th century, 100 million people were killed by …
Il Duce Cuomo
SharingA federal judge has ruled that the National Rifle Association …
The Court-Packers
Sharing“What if there were five justices selected by Democrats,” presidential …

Once the most potent moral figure in Western culture was Jesus Christ. Believer or unbeliever, you took your ethical bearings from him, or professed to. To question his morals was to expose yourself as a monster. Now, the most potent moral figure in Western culture is Adolf Hitler. It is as monstrous to praise him as it would once have been to disparage Jesus. He has become the fixed reference point by which we define evil.
Alec Ryrie, Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (November 2019). See also “The End of the Age of Hitler,” First Things, November 2024.

— Alec Ryrie