by David Fischler | Feb 10, 2020 | Academia
George Orwell famously said, “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” From Hot Air’s John Sexton comes word of a new book that fits that epigram to a tee. The book in question is entitled The Ahuman Manifesto, whose author...
by David Fischler | Feb 6, 2020 | Academia
It is well known that American higher education has a Red Guard problem. The Red Guards, readers of a certain age will recall, were students who served as the fanatical shock troops of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Their specialty was taking citizens who might have...
by David Fischler | Feb 3, 2020 | Corrupt Media
I’m not a football fan. I keep up with the NFL just enough so that I can talk to my parishioners and not sound like an idiot. I think of the Super Bowl the same way as Ebenezer Scrooge thought of Christmas, as a “false and commercial festival, devoutly to...
by David Fischler | Jan 17, 2020 | Literature, Obituary
One of the great literary figures of the last fifty years has passed away. Christopher Tolkien, the youngest son of J.R.R. and Edith Tolkien, was 95. When I was growing up, I devoutly ignored The Lord of the Rings. I had no interest in fantasy, and was enough of a...
by David Fischler | Jan 8, 2020 | Theological Liberalism, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Politics, Woke Church
The collection of totalitarian tools who call themselves “Red-Letter Christians” have put out a screed against the killing of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force. It is exactly what you...
