Much of the controversy surrounding the Texas Board of Education centers on whether the early United States was a Christian nation. Claude Fischer over at The Immanent Frame contends that it was not: “Some Religious Right activists believe that were it to be accepted as a fact that pre-1800 Americans were deeply Christian, a new [...]

President Obama will hold a private Seder dinner tonight with his family and Jewish staff members, a tradition started in 2008 while on the campaign trail.  Although Seder dinner is s a religious holiday celebrating the liberation of the Jews from slavery in Egypt, I recently discovered there’s bits of the tradition that rings true [...]

I’ll end my blogging for the week on a rather sober note if you too live in Michigan. A new government report found that fifteen states had double digit unemployment in February, Michigan having the highest of them all: Michigan’s unemployment rate was 14.1 percent in February, and in the Detroit-Warren-Livonia area the rate was [...]

Last night Consider editors bid farewell to a number of the staff who were graduating. We at The Conversationalist would like to wish all the graduating editors a hearty goodbye. You all will be missed! –Daniel Strauss and the rest of the staff that was left behind

Here’s the (wrong) way I thought the world worked: In families, people are selfless. People help each other, sacrifice for each other, want the best for each other. In small tribes or clans, then, family-like solidarity would encourage the same sort of benevolence; at the very least, members would be unwilling to cheat each other. [...]

Speaking of David Frum, it seems he was laid off again, this time by the American Enterprise Institute. As I’m sure everyone knows from doggedly following the latest news in Washington punditry gossip like I do, Frum already parted ways with National Review a while back. Frum’s recent pink slip is probably because of this [...]