Strange things are afoot among the intellectuals. Neo-Marxists Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri see the world divided into oppressive Empire and the resistant Multitude, and take inspiration from Saint Augustine�s two cities. Slavoj Zizek, who hailed Hardt and Negri�s 2000 book Empire as the �Communist Manifesto of the twenty-first century,� can�t stop quoting Chesterton. You can�t join the club of Continental deep thinkers nowadays unless you have published a book on the apostle Paul. Not that any of them actually believe any of it, but radicals have got religion.�.�.�.�Continue Reading �
In his September 1, 2011 column �Gay and Christian,� Russell Saltzman addressed my article in the New Oxford Review, in which I sketched a brief history of homosexual politics over the past two and a half millennia as a background for understanding the present controversy. I wrote that: �It is an uncomfortable fact that for a long time a campaign of hatred and persecution has been waged against those who experience same-sex attractions.� Saltzman takes issue with what he imagines to be an argument against the authority of St. Paul�s theological views on the morality of homosexuality. .�.�.�Continue Reading �
