Biden’s Strange Trip from Roe to Dobbs
President Joe Biden used his bully pulpit to chastise the Dobbs decision reversing Roe v. Wade. When Roe was first announced, however, Biden was singing a very different tune. John […]
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Katharine Hayhoe in Sight and Sound
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and one of the most widely heard voices taking the message to the masses. John recently talked with Katharine and the results are […]
About Those Climate Emails
On a recent edition of the Brass Spittoon podcast, Dr. Katharine Hayhoe and I went back and forth a bit on the impact of the 2009 email disclosures from the […]
Mourning the Children
In the tragic wake of the Uvalde shootings and the much less publicized deaths at a D.C. abortion clinic, John looks at the politics of compassion here at First Things.
Thought for Food
John contemplates The Last Pig, a film chronicling one farmer’s journey away from feeding the slaughterhouse, here on the Porch.
Cuellar’s Scrape Along the Rio Grande
The last pro-life Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives faced another border battle for his seat. John explores the race at First Things here. (As of now, with all […]
Live(?) from New York
Saturday Night Live used to be in it for laughs. Today, abortion is too sacred to be made the butt of any of their jokes. John looks at SNL from […]
Confessions of Chuck Marohn
The founder of Strong Towns joins John for a discussion of traffic and his latest book Confessions of a Recovering Engineer. Listen to the podcast here.
Among the Integralists
John reviews Common Good Constitutionalism, Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule’s vision of a mighty leader bound by only the loose cords of a constitution, here at Front Porch Republic.
One of a Kind
Congressman Henry Cuellar will not go down in history as the best of the pro-life House Democrats (e.g. Dan Lipinski was a far more spirited champion of the unborn), but […]
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