Where Are Their Civil Rights?
January 1973
Creationless Creation
Over at Salvo, Jennifer Fulwiler has a great article, “Mad About Babies: What’s Sex Got to Do With It?” Until a couple of years ago, I was militantly pro-choice. When I heard people make anti-abortion statements, it filled me with a white-hot anger that I could barely contain. Behind my views was a buried but [...]
Obects of History
Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked On-Line, wrote what is probably the most perceptive essay on the Obama phenomena that I have seen: So there was a dual historic element to the inauguration: there was the real history of it, but more powerfully still there was the projection of a yearning for history on to it, [...]
A Letter To My Representatives On Oil Prices
Dear Senators Burr and Dole and Representative Jones, Last week I listened on C-SPAN to the testimony of oil executives from the big five oil companies. As a father of five who is forced to drive a large van, this issue is of great concern to me. I recognize that there are things that I [...]
The Worlds Of Christopher Columbus
There are few historical figures as controversial as Christopher Columbus. If public debate since the five hundredth anniversary of his first voyage is an accurate indication, how one sees Columbus is not a matter of historical analysis but rather one’s personal political views. It is already difficult enough to piece together the details of Columbus’ [...]
Foucault’s Folly
Unable to participate in national debates in any other way, I have participated in religion and politics discussion forums on the Internet for years. I have noticed that many of the exchanges are based on power. Discussions are frequently full of postmodern machinations designed to subvert any attempts at clear thinking. It is an axiom [...]
Becket; or For the Honor of God
There are some who believe that history is history and fiction is fiction and they should never mingle. Those who think this way see no place for historical novels and movies, and they limit themselves by thinking this way. Why? Because good historical fiction can illuminate an age or a person in ways that are [...]