Angry masses

Dana Milbank asks a good question. One answer: when people have a strong cultural and religious identity, their political preferences are just one aspect of their personality. When people are secularized and have weak cultural and social associations, politics becomes a substitute religion and their main existential motivator is hate for the "bad guys." This is also the situation in which they are most easily manipulated by the powers that be (mass media, political propaganda etc.)

Shocker!

Spengler reveals his secret identity and becomes an editor at First Things. His first essay is worth reading.

Unforgettable

Think of remembering every day of your life.

Coming back

A.N. Wilson on Easter.

Protestant atheists?

Maggie Gallagher argues that all the statistics about the "decline of Christianity" in the US are really about the final collapse of mainline Protestantism. It is true that most public atheists (Hitchens, Harris, Dawkins etc.) seem to have a very Protestant idea of God.

Raw power

Nigerian pentecostals are coming somewhere near you.

Settling for felines

Are cat cafes in our future?

A fighter

Fr. Stanley Jaki passed away.

Hope for something better

Rod Dreher feels defeated by the tyranny of secular liberalism. Perhaps he put too much hope in cultural warfare.

Clearly said

Anglican bishop Nazir-Ali speaks his mind.

Remarkable story

A scholar fills a major missing link in the history of the Shroud of Turin.

The most advanced oligarchy in the world

Simon Johnson points out that "the market" as a non-political entity does not exist, and that the economic crisis is greatly complicated by the intersection of finance and political power. Denninger agrees.

Give them Christ

Sandro Magister "gets" Benedict XVI.

The age of the Spirit

Actually Joachimism might be a very accurate description of the worldview of President Obama and of the cultural tradition that generated him.

Life

Africa, the new Alexandria?