Hitch
Michael Weiss presents some observations about Christopher Hitchens.
Making Haste
TNR reviews Making Haste From Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History by Nick Bunker. You can browse inside the book and read an interview with the author here.
Legacy of Bankruptcy
Tiffany Jones Miller: The Progressives’ Legacy of Bankruptcy. See here.
New Frontier
The New Frontier: “Covering” Conservatives by Jonah Goldberg. There has been a lot of news in the last week or so: the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the death of Sen. Robert Byrd, the oil spill off the Gulf Coast, [...]
A Hatred
A Hatred That Resists Exorcism. See here.
How on Earth
Professor of New Testament Language, Literature & Theology (University of Edinburgh) Larry W. Hurtado discussing How on Earth did Jesus Become a God?
Hellish Histrionics
Melanie Phillips: The Hellish Histrionics of Hove Propaganda Court. Under the combined weight of ideology and bigotry, the rule of law itself seems to be breaking down in Britain. For the second time, a jury has acquitted people charged with [...]
Modern World
How Europeans Invented the Modern World by David Deming. See here.
Rivera
New York Times Magazine profiles Mariano Rivera.
Rove
The New York Review of Books reviews Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight by Karl Rove.
What Darwin Got Wrong III
Here’s another review of What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini. (Previous posts linked here)
Islam
Islam: What Is To Be Done? by Hugh Fitzgerald. See here.
Ugliest
Fifty ugliest cars of the past 50 years. See here.
Lost
Why West Lost Afghan War by Michael Scheuer Recent events surrounding Afghanistan shouldn’t confuse anyone, as the reality of the situation still lies in one simple statement: The US-NATO coalition has lost a war its political leaders never meant, or [...]
Bonhoeffer
CT reviews Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas. Here’s an earlier review from the WSJ. You can browse inside the book here.
One Year
June was the (latest) TDC Blog’s one year anniversary. While I get about 2,000 visitors a month, most are searching for one post/story and not necessarily reading much of anything else. Frankly, I spend way too much time on the [...]
The Long Road
Walter Laqueure: Europe’s Long Road to the Mosque. See here.