Consumption of content is increasingly through audiobooks, podcasts, or YouTube videos—in other words, through oral tradition. We may thus be witnessing a technological revolution that not only takes us forward into a brave new world of communication, but also backward to the time of the Old Testament patriarchs. A few years ago I was able [...]
As I listened, all those years ago, to Rush Limbaugh defend Terry Schiavo's life and all human life, I remember thinking at the time that it was the most eloquent defense of life I had ever heard. Although it was 16 years ago, I remember it vividly. I was driving down I-270 in Maryland toward [...]
I am grateful that my mother so often insisted on making us listen to Rush Limbaugh's radio show. She knew what I did not until it was almost too late: that Rush was for a long time a solitary sentinel, watching and warning the American people (and the world) of threats to their flourishing. With [...]
What accounts for the dip in the American people's trust in the media? Perhaps it is because our media "watchdogs" have proven over and over again that they answer to one political master: the Democratic party. Though it’s commonly ascribed to the viciousness of Ye Olde Orange Manne Badde, the state of public (lack of) [...]
'National Review' magazine remains my constant companion, even when I sometimes disagree with her. Indeed, NR's mission has been just and worthy, as she has remained adamantly anti-communist, pro-life, and just about right on every social issue, while accommodating the variety of “sects” within the American conservative movement. Sometime around 1981 or so, Bill Buckley [...]