The social network that you can wear
- LIFESTYLE
- February 6, 2015
I am writing this editorial while on vacation in France. More specifically it was written in the guest room of the chateau my wife discovered on the Internet. The pictures posted there did not do it half the justice that reality confers. I am sitting under a high arched ceiling and looking out over computer
READ MOREWhat is liberty? It is freedom from undue restraint; it is the sum of the rights and immunities of all the citizens of an organized civil community, with provision for guaranteed protection against interference with their civil, political, personal, and religious activities. What pictures the word &”liberty&” conjures up! It brings to mind opened prisons,
READ MORESometimes it’s an indignant murmur, sometimes it’s an angry tirade, but lately you hear it louder and louder. &”America is taking God out of everything, and we wonder why our nation is experiencing so many problems,&”1 posted someone identified as &”T&” to the Amboy Times in response to a blurb about the removal of &”In
READ MOREThe trouble with the American Sentinel, wrote Rev. W. T. McConnell in 1887, was that it seemed &”determined to oppose the progress of this nation in fulfilling its vocation as an instrument in the divine work of regenerating human society.&”1 The rebuke to Liberty magazine’s predecessor from the Youngstown, Ohio, preacher was on target. Then
READ MORENothing so defines the modern capital of the Dominican Republic as the Columbus monument, which dominates a hill just above Santo Domingo. Its soaring concrete facade—which evokes a massive ship bearing down on the land—contains more than the supposed bones of Christopher Columbus. It could just as easily be bearing the memories of religious zeal
READ MOREThe experience of the Religious Right is a cautionary one. Successful in putting together a coalition with enormous electoral clout for over three decades, they were mainly unsuccessful in changing American life. In addition to adopting a hectoring tone that embarrassed many evangelical Christians, they were wrong about what the United States Constitution means in
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