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Reason's Anemic Response To The Ron Paul Newsletters

This post is representative. It's all spin, apologetics, feigned credulity, tu quoque, and ipse dixit. I think Paul's prone to nutty conspiracy theories, but I don't think he's a racist, at least not ... read more

It’s our fault the young are leaving

For the past 50 years or so, Christian thinkers have largely abandoned the art of apologetics and have failed (here I offer ... But it is altogether vulnerable to a tu quoque (you do the same thing) ... read more

The Evangelical Advantage

This is not generally a problem for Evangelicals. I eagerly await your comments, but I’m not going to publish comments that are crude tu quoque remarks. There is no Christian church in America that ... read more

Neither Stalin nor Mussolini

I am told this is ‘whataboutery’ , whatever that is. Well, if it is, then ‘whataboutery’ is a very powerful argument, just as ‘Tu quoque’ (‘You did it too’) has always been. If you claim to act out of ... read more

4 Categories of Castro Apologetics, and the Anti-Individualism That Knits Them Together

As America settles in for some prevent defense against ever-advancing authoritarianism at home, it is potentially useful to examine the categories of apologetics for the advanced authoritarian who ... read more

American Catholics

. . . Michael Novak, in his review of Michael Harrington’s Fragments of a Century [Books in Review, May], refers to the fear of the autobiographical mode as “an American-Catholic affliction,” seeming ... read more

Fear of a Muslim America

The real story was far more complicated. The evangelists, members of a ministry called Acts 17 Apologetics, were arrested based on a complaint from a Christian festival volunteer who claimed they had ... read more

The Nazism Of Narnia

The longtime best-selling book of Christian apologetics—C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity—calls for religious nationalism (“all economists and statesmen should be Christians”) and argues that God wants ... read more