World Magazine is addressing the issues head on. =========== It’s two weeks since the Supreme Court rocked American evangelicals by nationalizing same-sex marriage. It’s also 150 years since the greatest inaugural address ever given. Abraham Lincoln at his second inaugural culminated his attempt to find meaning in the Civil War by finally trusting God—and we can learn from his conclusions. Here’s a key... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Magna Carta
June 15 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Western CivilizationNot a surprise that the New York Times has this as their Quote of the Day. History being re-interpreted to their liking. The West is Bad. ====== QUOTATION OF THE DAY (from NYT) The myth of Magna Carta lies at the whole origin of our perception of who we are as an English-speaking people, freedom-loving people who’ve lived with a degree... Read more
Summer Reading List
May 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Personal DevelopmentBy Gilbert T. Sewall May 29, 2015 6:30 p.m. ET Parents often think fate has singled their children out for poorly chosen school reading assignments. It hasn’t. A distressed father recently told me about seeing his high-school-age daughter’s summer reading list and realizing that it was devoted exclusively to contemporary writers such as David Eggers, Malcolm Gladwell and Barbara Ehrenreich.... Read more
‘Alfred Maurer: At the Vanguard of Modernism’ Review
May 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ArtI’m in a little “Art Club”, and I found this interesting. ========== By Lance Esplund May 25, 2015 2:28 p.m. ET Andover, Mass. It is nearly impossible to convey the original impact an artist from the past had on his contemporaries. What matters is his artworks’ impression in the here-and-now. But art and artists don’t exist in a vacuum. A painter’s worth can be... Read more
A Double-Standard Windfall for the Clintons
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Party Politics, The LeftIf Hillary was Republican, there would be blood in the streets…. =========== By Shannen W. Coffin And Michael J. Edney Consider these facts: The chairman of a Canadian company named Uranium One reportedly donated $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. At the same time the company was seeking U.S. government approval to sell a 51% controlling... Read more
Rethinking the U.S. Surrender on Nuclear Power
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Environment, The LeftIts religion. ============ By Eric McFarland April 27, 2015 7:11 p.m. ET The ghosts of Lenin and Mao might well be smirking. Communist and authoritarian nations are moving to take global leadership in, and profit from, the commercial use of nuclear power, a technology made possible by the market-driven economies of the West. New research and development could enable abundant, affordable, low-carbon energy as... Read more
