Originally posted on River Thames Beach Party:
Dr. Roberta BayerI read this article in the Anglican Way Magazine and reprinting it here with Dr. Bayer’s kind permission………… The “Deep Churchman” – Commentary on “C. S. Lewis, 20 Years After” By Roberta Bayer C. S. Lewis described himself as a “deep churchman,” in the passages quoted by…

    (Photo: David McNew/Reuters)  A big concern with immigration is the political impact of the potential cultural change. Many conservatives posit that immigrants from non-Anglophone countries inherently do not culturally adapt to the center-right political culture in the US and therefore conservatives are behooved to limit immigration in order to retain the unique, and… Read More Immigration & California

Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris. Now this bell softly tolling for another, says to me, Thou must die. John Donne In our modern age it seems we are obsessed with avoiding death. We don’t say someone died. They passed on. We don’t have funerals. We have memorial services, or life celebrations. To me this seems… Read More On Death

Originally posted on The Reformed Layman:
Now that it has become clear that the Republican candidate will be Donald Trump and that the Democrat candidate will be Hillary Clinton, the accusations have already begun against all who have said they will not vote for either candidate.  “A vote for a third party or refraining from…

Counties that went third party (socialist and prohibition) in 1916, all of which went for Romney, are not pictured as part of the Romney coalition. The solid Blue in the South is mostly voter suppression and lack of Mexicanization. Colorado was much more rural and non-Hispanic in 1916. Same for northern Ohio. Actual map of […]… Read More Obama’s Coalition v. Romney’s…in 1916 — Marginal Counterrevolution

In the last essay, I wrote about the value of cultural assimilation, as well as the role that culture plays in both negative and positive policy outcomes. Given this fact, it seems that Europe, and soon America, will face a major challenge. As the Near East becomes more unstable, the pressure to accept more refugees will… Read More The Refugee Crisis & Why America is Different: Part II