Tag Archives: Jove’s Witnesses

Down and Out On Your Streets

19th
Mar. × ’13
By Roderick

When I saw Michelle Shocked perform in Auburn a little over a year ago, she described herself as “to the left of Emma Goldman.” Well, today Emma is a shrinking figure in Michelle’s rear view mirror. Damn, I used to like her.

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Sympathy for the Devil?

10th
Mar. × ’13
By Roderick

A question that Christian children sometimes (and Christian adults too seldom) ask is whether, if they should pray for their enemies, that means that they should pray for Satan – i.e., pray for Satan’s eventual reformation and redemption. The traditional answer is that angels’ mode of existence, between time and eternity, is such that their [...]

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Blaming the Victims

9th
Oct. × ’12
By Roderick

My review of Bruce Bawer’s The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind for Reason.com is now up. Spoiler alert: I didn’t like it.

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Three from The Liberator

25th
Aug. × ’12
By Roderick

William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator was the premier abolitionist journal of the antebellum u.s. I’ve just posted three pieces from The Liberator: an anti-voting piece by Garrison, an anti-slavery piece by Lysander Spooner, and a report on an 1858 reform convention.

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The Three Rs

16th
Aug. × ’12
By Roderick

Surprisingly good stuff on the Ryan/Rand connection, from the usually insufferable Lawrence O’Donnell: How disappointed would Ayn Rand be in her formerly devoted public disciple Paul Ryan? Well, she wouldn’t miss his devotion very much. Because his recent betrayal just wouldn’t surprise her. Because Paul Ryan was never true to Rand’s philosophy. Right-wing hero Ayn [...]

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Chikin Games

13th
Aug. × ’12
By Roderick

The following letter appeared in today’s Opelika-Auburn News: To the Editor: Rudy Tidwell’s defense (letter to the editor titled “Chick-fil-A COO’s comments twisted” on Aug. 4) of Chick-fil-A honcho Dan Cathy is bizarre. Cathy “did not directly condemn same-sex marriage,” Tidwell tells us; he simply “affirmed the biblical view of marriage as being between one [...]

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