The Anti-Politics of Russ Feingold
March 31, 2006 | by Marvin J. Folkertsma | Topic: The American Story
If Senator Russ Feingold ever lost any sleep about how to get his name on the front side of a hyphen after the passage of the McCain-Feingold Act, without question he succeeded with his latest gambit to stick it to … Read more>
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Weinberger’s Wisdom
March 29, 2006 | by Paul G. Kengor | Topic: The DNA of Greatness
On Monday evening, March 27, I spoke to students in my “Modern Civilization” course here at Grove City College. I was lecturing on the origins of the Cold War. I began talking about the Berlin Wall, going through the date … Read more>
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VISION & VALUES CONCISE: Q&A with Dr. Paul Marshall
March 28, 2006 | by Paul Marshall | Topic: The Content of Character, Vision & Values Concise E-publications
Editor’s Note: Dr. Paul Marshall is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Religious Freedom and will be participating in the April 5-6, 2006 conference hosted by the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College titled, “Mr. Jefferson … Read more>
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Religious Freedom in Afghanistan
March 27, 2006 | by Joseph Knippenberg | Topic: The Global Challenge
Sixteen years ago, while working with a Christian relief group in Peshawar, Pakistan, Abdul Rahman converted to Christianity. After spending nine years in Germany, he returned to Afghanistan in 2002. Now, in the middle of a dispute with … Read more>
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Ungracious Idiocy
March 24, 2006 | by Earl H. Tilford | Topic: The American Story
which come from kindness are the very worst.
—Carl von Clausewitz, On War, 1832
The Father of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Vladimir Lenin, used the term “useful idiots” to describe … Read more>
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Dishonest Divestment
March 16, 2006 | by Earl H. Tilford | Topic: The Global Challenge
In 2004, at its 216th General Assembly, the national governing body of the Presbyterian Church, USA (PCUSA), instructed its Mission Responsibility through Investment Committee to consider divesting stock in companies doing business with Israel. The 2.7 million member denomination did … Read more>
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Recent Headlines Review: Inconceivable!
March 14, 2006 | by Marvin J. Folkertsma | Topic: The Persuaders
Sometimes lack of focus is a good thing. It allows restless eyes to wander across an insane landscape of newspaper headlines that proclaim every absurdity, outrage, and shameless prevarication possible. All of which can leave a stupefied mind to scream … Read more>
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GCC Center Gains Clout: Policy Group is Pushing Ideas
March 7, 2006 | by Mark Hillwig | Topic: The Content of Character
GROVE CITY – Although one of the focuses of Grove City College’s Center for Vision and Values remains on the community, the recently formed think tank is having an impact on public policy on a national level.
The Center for … Read more>
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Portrait of an Anti-American
March 6, 2006 | by Marvin J. Folkertsma | Topic: The American Story
They come in all shapes and sizes, without regard to age, race, color, credo, Speedo, national origins, pedigree, filigree, or no degree. They are full-blooded, half-blooded, sixteenth-blooded, green-blooded, one-sixty-fourth-blooded something or other, Vulcanese, Pekinese, or strip tease. They are mono-cultural, … Read more>
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Can You Name this War?
March 3, 2006 | by Earl H. Tilford | Topic: The American Story
Can you name the war which so far has claimed over 6,000 American lives, more than half that number being innocent civilians? First we called it “The War on Terrorism,” which didn’t work because making war on terrorism made as … Read more>
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Alito’s Epistle
March 3, 2006 | by Paul G. Kengor | Topic: The American Story
I get angry emails anytime I accuse the dominant press of hostility toward religion, and specifically toward the religious right, as opposed to the religious left. The press is silent (or at least not hostile) when a liberal preacher denounces … Read more>
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Islamo-cartoon-ophobia: The Aftermath
March 2, 2006 | by Marvin J. Folkertsma | Topic: The Global Challenge
Karl Marx, taking his cue from Hegel, once commented that great historical events occur in two versions: first as tragedy and second as farce. Let’s parse the farce part first. Clearly, Nickelodeon should reconsider starting a new channel in Riyadh; … Read more>
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Medicine and Theology: From Embryos to the Posthuman
March 1, 2006 | by Lee Wishing | Topic: The Content of Character
On February 22, 2006, the Grove City Society for Science, Faith and Technology will sponsor a one-day conference entitled Medicine and Theology: From Embryos to the Posthuman. This conference will be held in the Sticht lecture room of the Hall … Read more>







