Society & Culture

“they raise a pair of problems for the relatively poor caused by the fact that government redistribution currently brings the average income of the lowest fifth of the population to a point only minimally below that of the next fifth.” - Law & Liberty

“Congress included pro-life and conscience protections in a massive omnibus spending bill that gained final approval Friday (Dec. 23).” - BPNews

“Once a year, rootless moderns find an anchor in the past” - World

“Churches observing St. Stephen’s Day retain the charitable roots of December 26.” - CToday

“Fifteen percent of Americans felt that the most annoying or overplayed Christmas song was either ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ (12%) … or any other song by Carey (3%). ‘Jingle Bells’ (6%), ‘Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer’ (5%)” - RNS

“This week, Barnes & Noble announced plans to open 30 new stores next year…. the move looks to be part of a larger turnaround for booksellers.” - Relevant

“The United States is the lone country out of 19 surveyed where a plurality of adults say their country’s influence has been getting weaker recently.” - Pew

“Evangelical, Orthodox, and academic sources weigh security concerns against the right to associate with historic patriarchate losing popularity and suspected of war collaboration.” - CToday

“The first book was Stephen Wolfe’s The Case for Christian Nationalism. The second was my own, The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism. Our books do not cite each other, yet it is remarkable the degree to which they speak to the same issues from opposite perspectives.” - CToday

“What follows is an apologia, an explanation and defense of my filing the lawsuit, which I know has brought considerable consternation and perhaps resentment from some” - Nicholas Meriwether