Department Of Fat Chances

Damon Linker, in what he promises will be his only Sarah Palin post, seems to think that if we ignore her, she'll go away.

Saints Or Statesmen

Politics and religion are irreconcilable -- and that's okay, Damon Linker argues, because they have fundamentally different goals:

Our saints will not be statesmen and our statesmen will not be saints. Whether the religious right has been definitively defeated or lives on to fight another day, it can never succeed in its goals -- because those goals deny this ineradicable truth about the permanent tensions between incompatible goods.

Not Sola Scriptura?

Damon Linker wonders why some faithful social conservatives have an "obsession" with homosexuality. Is it only because they respect the authority of scripture and the church?