
Capital Commentary - by Author
Alaine Gherardi
- A Ban in Favor of Life (06/2002)
- A Betrayal of Faith (02/2002)
Alice-Catherine Carls
- Snitch and Die (04/2006)
Brenda Kay Zylstra
- Pro-Life Rally—35 Years (02/2008)
Charles Glenn
- Time to Fix Bilingual Education (09/2001)
Christen Yates
- Party-ing in the Middle (02/2000)
David Coolidge
- The End of Pluralism? (12/1996)
David Koyzis
- Educational Equity in Ontario (07/2004)
- Rebalancing NATO (03/2004)
- Ending the Division of Cyprus (08/2003)
Dean Trulear
- Martin Luther King Day (01/2008)
- Healing Communities for Returning Citizens (10/2007)
- Prisoner Reentry (04/2007)
- Stop Gun Violence! (10/2006)
- Snitch and Die (04/2006)
Dennis R. Hoover
- Latin American Evangelicals: In a League of their Own (06/2008)
- The Proselytism "Problem" (09/2007)
- Good Cops, Bad Cops and Religious Freedom (06/2007)
- Evangelicals and the Muscular Middle (12/2006)
Donald Kruse
- Road Map to Middle East Peace (04/2003)
- Seeing Two Sides in the Land of Promise (04/2002)
Henry Suhr
- Land Preservation and the Common Good (07/1998)
Jack Boeve
- Jeffords' Defection: The Tip of an Iceberg (06/2001)
- Charitable Choice Behind Bars (02/2001)
James Skillen
- Rule of Law Succumbs to Torture for Safety (06/2008)
- Is the Economic Crisis a Moral Issue? (04/2008)
- Food, Fuel, and Farming (01/2008)
- The Annapolis Conference (11/2007)
- Free Exchange Depends on Just Markets (09/2007)
- Our Destructive Delusion About Iraq (07/2007)
- Torture (05/2007)
- The European Union at 50 (04/2007)
- Obama for President? (01/2007)
- Confusion on Iraq (10/2006)
- All Politics is Global (09/2006)
- Trade, Energy, and the Rebalancing of Global Power (07/2006)
- Immigrant Justice (05/2006)
- Intelligent Courts, Schools, and Science (12/2005)
- Arguing About a War In Question (11/2005)
- A Good Tax-Reform Proposal (10/2005)
- Labor Value (09/2005)
- Africa and the G-8 Summit (07/2005)
- Filibuster War (05/2005)
- The State of the Union (02/2005)
- "Ownership Society" Misconceived (12/2004)
- Religiously Political Conservatism (10/2004)
- Test the Candidates on Social Security (07/2004)
- Why Afghanistan Should Concern Us (06/2004)
- Why Save Arafat? (05/2004)
- Iowa and New Hampshire and... (01/2004)
- An American Covenant With God? (12/2003)
- Marriage and Homosexual Rights (10/2003)
- Laissez-Faire is Not Enough (10/2003)
- From Legal Judgment to Political Approbation (07/2003)
- Democracy Through Creative Destruction? (05/2003)
- What Price this Union? (02/2003)
- Gambling for Tax Revenues (01/2003)
- The Republicans' Rare Opportunity (12/2002)
- The Growing Instability of International Politics (10/2002)
- Breaking a Party Mold (10/2002)
- Earth to Summit: It's Government, Stupid! (09/2002)
- U.S. Shortsightedness on the ICC (07/2002)
- O'Neill on Safari with Bono (06/2002)
- Veto the Farm Bill! (05/2002)
- U.S. Defense: A Question of Perspective (03/2002)
- The State of the Union (01/2002)
- Tanks at the Manger? (12/2001)
- Beyond the Military Campaign (11/2001)
- The Ignominious Pretension of Falwell/Robertson (09/2001)
- Retarget the Farm Subsidies (08/2001)
- The Poverty of Public Moral Discourse (06/2001)
- Chinese Wake-Up Call (04/2001)
- Financing Elections (03/2001)
- Who Are The Conservatives Now? (01/2001)
- Tax Cuts and Savings Rates (01/2001)
- Give Thanks! (11/2000)
- Forget the Debates (10/2000)
- Is America God's Mediator to the Globe? (09/2000)
- The Race to Consolidate the Moral Majority (08/2000)
- Rudderless Politics (06/2000)
- Social Security and the Poor (06/2000)
- Fueling Retirement Security (05/2000)
- Catholic House Chaplain: What's the Problem? (03/2000)
- Parents Rights (01/2000)
- Progress (of all kinds) Through Economic Growth? (11/1999)
- Congressional Contradictions (10/1999)
- Abortion Up, Crime Down? (08/1999)
- What's an FBO? (08/1999)
- Off and Running for President: Good News and Bad (06/1999)
- Just or Unjust War? (04/1999)
- Majority No Longer Moral? (03/1999)
- Campaign Messages (01/1999)
- Pollution (11/1998)
- The Abdication of Authority (09/1998)
- Out of Focus (08/1998)
- Yes, Wisconsin! (06/1998)
- Food, Farming, and Foreign Policy (04/1998)
- America's Debt to Africa (04/1998)
- Lawmaking and the Supreme Court (03/1998)
- Don't Unite with Americans United (02/1998)
- Justice and Forgiveness (12/1997)
- An Uncertain Superpower (11/1997)
- Justice, Not Poverty, Requires Choice (08/1997)
- What Does Serious Christian Advocacy Require? (07/1997)
- Racial Justice (06/1997)
- What's Right about Afrocentrism? (05/1997)
- Christians in Coalition (05/1997)
- Suicide (04/1997)
- Just Say No To Human Cloning (03/1997)
- Skip the Balanced Budget Amendment (03/1997)
- Of Oaths and Offices (01/1997)
- Immigration Dilemmas (11/1996)
- The Environment of the Commonwealth (10/1996)
- Cleveland is Right (09/1996)
- America Needs More Than a Third Party (08/1996)
- Advantage Dole? (06/1996)
- Expensive Gas, Cheap Leadership (05/1996)
- Are There Two Chinas Now? (03/1996)
- So What If Hillary Is Guilty? (02/1996)
- Senator Coats, Meet Glenn Loury (01/1996)
James Skillen; James Ohlson
- Religiously Political Conservatism (10/2004)
- Test the Candidates on Social Security (07/2004)
- Why Afghanistan Should Concern Us (06/2004)
- Why Save Arafat? (05/2004)
- Iowa and New Hampshire and... (01/2004)
- An American Covenant With God? (12/2003)
- Marriage and Homosexual Rights (10/2003)
- Laissez-Faire is Not Enough (10/2003)
- From Legal Judgment to Political Approbation (07/2003)
- Democracy Through Creative Destruction? (05/2003)
- What Price this Union? (02/2003)
- Gambling for Tax Revenues (01/2003)
- The Republicans' Rare Opportunity (12/2002)
- The Growing Instability of International Politics (10/2002)
- Breaking a Party Mold (10/2002)
- Earth to Summit: It's Government, Stupid! (09/2002)
- U.S. Shortsightedness on the ICC (07/2002)
- O'Neill on Safari with Bono (06/2002)
- Veto the Farm Bill! (05/2002)
- U.S. Defense: A Question of Perspective (03/2002)
- The State of the Union (01/2002)
- Tanks at the Manger? (12/2001)
- Beyond the Military Campaign (11/2001)
- The Ignominious Pretension of Falwell/Robertson (09/2001)
- Retarget the Farm Subsidies (08/2001)
- The Poverty of Public Moral Discourse (06/2001)
- Chinese Wake-Up Call (04/2001)
- Financing Elections (03/2001)
- Who Are The Conservatives Now? (01/2001)
- Tax Cuts and Savings Rates (01/2001)
- Give Thanks! (11/2000)
- Forget the Debates (10/2000)
- Is America God's Mediator to the Globe? (09/2000)
- The Race to Consolidate the Moral Majority (08/2000)
- Rudderless Politics (06/2000)
- Social Security and the Poor (06/2000)
- Fueling Retirement Security (05/2000)
- Catholic House Chaplain: What's the Problem? (03/2000)
- Parents Rights (01/2000)
- Progress (of all kinds) Through Economic Growth? (11/1999)
- Congressional Contradictions (10/1999)
- Abortion Up, Crime Down? (08/1999)
- What's an FBO? (08/1999)
- Off and Running for President: Good News and Bad (06/1999)
- Just or Unjust War? (04/1999)
- Majority No Longer Moral? (03/1999)
- Campaign Messages (01/1999)
- Pollution (11/1998)
- The Abdication of Authority (09/1998)
- Out of Focus (08/1998)
- Yes, Wisconsin! (06/1998)
- Food, Farming, and Foreign Policy (04/1998)
- America's Debt to Africa (04/1998)
- Lawmaking and the Supreme Court (03/1998)
- Don't Unite with Americans United (02/1998)
- Justice and Forgiveness (12/1997)
- An Uncertain Superpower (11/1997)
- Justice, Not Poverty, Requires Choice (08/1997)
- What Does Serious Christian Advocacy Require? (07/1997)
- Racial Justice (06/1997)
- What's Right about Afrocentrism? (05/1997)
- Christians in Coalition (05/1997)
- Suicide (04/1997)
- Just Say No To Human Cloning (03/1997)
- Skip the Balanced Budget Amendment (03/1997)
- Of Oaths and Offices (01/1997)
- Immigration Dilemmas (11/1996)
- The Environment of the Commonwealth (10/1996)
- Cleveland is Right (09/1996)
- America Needs More Than a Third Party (08/1996)
- Advantage Dole? (06/1996)
- Expensive Gas, Cheap Leadership (05/1996)
- Are There Two Chinas Now? (03/1996)
- So What If Hillary Is Guilty? (02/1996)
- Senator Coats, Meet Glenn Loury (01/1996)
James Skillen; Stanley Carlson-Thies; Stephen Monsma; Karen Hosler Kispert
- Religious Staffing-2, Opponents-0 (10/2005)
- A Supreme Challenge for John Roberts (07/2005)
- Partisan Religion? (10/2004)
- AWOL Again on the Faith-Based Initiative (04/2004)
- Shrinking Religious Liberty (02/2004)
- Religion and Politics Beyond the Party Lines (12/2003)
- We Won't Tolerate a Faith-Based Bait and Switch! (09/2003)
- Pass CARE, Just Don't Stop There! (04/2003)
- Go for the Substance, Not the Sizzle (12/2002)
- Mugging Civil Rights (10/2002)
- Why We Should Care about CARE (08/2002)
- Directions versus Issues (11/2000)
- More Religion, Please (08/2000)
- Y2K Politics (01/2000)
- No Quotas for Religion (09/1999)
- At the Center, Not the Margins (05/1999)
- Stand Up for Something (01/1999)
- Against the Decline (10/1998)
- School Prayer Isn't the Solution (06/1998)
- A Boy Scout Will be Brave, Reverent...and Tolerant? (03/1998)
- Decriminalize School Choice (01/1998)
- Fake Wall, Real Moat (12/1997)
- A Colorblind Society (11/1997)
- No Magic Bullet (09/1997)
- Lurching Ahead (08/1997)
- Time to Amend the Constitution (07/1997)
- A Global Army (06/1997)
- Don't Just Volunteer! (04/1997)
- Equality or Establishment? (03/1997)
- Leading the Charge in All Directions (02/1997)
- Abandoning Public Service? (01/1997)
- Losing by Default (10/1996)
- Filling In the Blanks (09/1996)
- Ending Poverty As We Know It (07/1996)
- Just Kidding (06/1996)
- Lamps Without Light (04/1996)
- AWOL (03/1996)
- Welfare Deform (01/1996)
Jerry Herbert
- Private Affair or Public Business? (05/1998)
Josh Good
- Matters of Faith . . . and Prison (12/2004)
Keith Pavlischek
- Girl or Boy: You Choose (01/2005)
- Kerry and the Church (05/2004)
- Now, Only Preemption is Containment (03/2003)
- They're not Martyrs, They're Murderers (04/2002)
- Title IX and Quotas: A Modest First Step (02/2002)
- Exposing the Roots of Hatred (12/2001)
- Seamless Silliness (10/2001)
- Which Way, Senator Lieberman? (07/2001)
- Capital Punishment, Justice, and Timothy McVeigh (05/2001)
- Equal Treatment, YES; Discrimination and Demagoguery, NO (02/2001)
- Race and Politics: A New Year's Challenge (12/2000)
- Election 2000, the Legislature and the Rule of Law (12/2000)
- You Weren't Expecting Lincoln-Douglas, Were You? (10/2000)
- Evangelicals, Sex and Liberal Intolerance (05/2000)
- Elian Versus Castro's Family Values (04/2000)
- The Race to the Bottom (03/2000)
- The Difficulty of Choosing Choice (12/1999)
- Homophobia: Excuse or Cause? (11/1999)
- DOSA, Anyone? (08/1999)
- Goring the Separationists (06/1999)
- Strategy and Justice in Kosovo (04/1999)
- Kosovo and American Power (02/1999)
- Paternal Responsibilities And Abortion Logic (12/1998)
- Sex, Race and Marriage Law (11/1998)
- What's Wrong with Terrorism, Anyway? (09/1998)
- This Year's Biggest Scandal (08/1998)
Luis Lugo
- Divided We Stand (11/1996)
- Will the Real Democratic Party Please Stand Up (09/1996)
- Gambling With Our Future (08/1996)
- Back to the Old Drawing Board (07/1996)
- A Shield, not a Sword (05/1996)
- Inches from Infanticide (04/1996)
- Who Is Pat Buchanan? (03/1996)
- What Ever Happened to Public Trust? (02/1996)
Lynn Robinson
- Prudence on National Missile Defense (11/2001)
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
- God Must Have a Very Large Funny Bone! (05/2005)
- Body, Soul, and Stem Cells (11/2004)
Michelle Kirtley
- A Surprise Consensus on Stem Cells? (02/2008)
- Biotechnology and Human Identity (09/2007)
- Genetic Bipartisanship in Congress! (03/2007)
- Stem Cell Veto (07/2006)
- Stem Cell Grail (01/2006)
Michelle Voll
- A Pain in the Neck: Who is Responsible? (03/2001)
- War Over Drugs (07/2000)
- Chinese Theater (07/1998)
- Seeds of Change (02/1998)
Mitri Raheb
- O Broken Town of Bethlehem (12/2002)
Paul Brink
- Jesus is Lord! (07/2008)
- More Political Morality, Please! (04/2008)
Roy Clouser
- Nukes and National Prestige (12/2006)
- Taking Aim at Gun Control (07/1999)
- Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki (08/1997)
Ruth Melkonian
- Why the Well Qualified Should Rule the World (03/2008)
- Immigration Reform and Our Southern Neighbors (06/2007)
- Congress Must Not Duck Immigration Reform (08/2006)
Stanley Carlson-Thies
- Avoid Left-Behind Politics (05/2008)
- Which Candidate Will Go First? (01/2008)
- Advancing Religious Freedom Against the Tide (01/2008)
- Stop Trying to Fence in Our Faith (06/2007)
- Don't Backslide on the Faith-Based Initiative (01/2007)
- Interfaith or Multi-faith? (06/2006)
- A Silver Lining in the Clouded "Silver Ring Thing" Case (03/2006)
- Think Beyond Iraq (01/2006)
- Religious Staffing-2, Opponents-0 (10/2005)
- A Supreme Challenge for John Roberts (07/2005)
- Partisan Religion? (10/2004)
- AWOL Again on the Faith-Based Initiative (04/2004)
- Shrinking Religious Liberty (02/2004)
- Religion and Politics Beyond the Party Lines (12/2003)
- We Won't Tolerate a Faith-Based Bait and Switch! (09/2003)
- Pass CARE, Just Don't Stop There! (04/2003)
- Go for the Substance, Not the Sizzle (12/2002)
- Mugging Civil Rights (10/2002)
- Why We Should Care about CARE (08/2002)
- Directions versus Issues (11/2000)
- More Religion, Please (08/2000)
- Y2K Politics (01/2000)
- No Quotas for Religion (09/1999)
- At the Center, Not the Margins (05/1999)
- Follow Joseph, Not Hobbes (02/1999)
- Stand Up for Something (01/1999)
- Against the Decline (10/1998)
- School Prayer Isn't the Solution (06/1998)
- A Boy Scout Will be Brave, Reverent...and Tolerant? (03/1998)
- Decriminalize School Choice (01/1998)
- Fake Wall, Real Moat (12/1997)
- A Colorblind Society (11/1997)
- No Magic Bullet (09/1997)
- Lurching Ahead (08/1997)
- Time to Amend the Constitution (07/1997)
- A Global Army (06/1997)
- Don't Just Volunteer! (04/1997)
- Equality or Establishment? (03/1997)
- Leading the Charge in All Directions (02/1997)
- Abandoning Public Service? (01/1997)
- Losing by Default (10/1996)
- Filling In the Blanks (09/1996)
- Ending Poverty As We Know It (07/1996)
- Just Kidding (06/1996)
- Lamps Without Light (04/1996)
- AWOL (03/1996)
- Welfare Deform (01/1996)
Stephen Lazarus
- The Faith-Based Initiative After 2008 (03/2007)
- A Tale of Two Textbooks (05/2006)
- First Amendment Amnesia (09/2005)
- Listening to the Sudanese Church in Exile (06/2005)
- The Everlasting Faith-Based Initiative (10/2004)
- Foreign Aid That Really Works (05/2004)
- Hardwired to Connect (01/2004)
- Regress, not Progress, in Georgia (11/2003)
- Give Washington, D.C. Families a Choice and a Chance (09/2003)
- Faith-Based Football (06/2003)
- The Real Face of the Faith-Based Initiative (01/2003)
- What's Unconstitutional About School Choice? (07/2002)
- A Supreme Victory for Religious Freedom (06/2002)
- Re-Igniting the Faith-Based Initiative (05/2002)
- Charitable Choice in the Courts: Round One (01/2002)
- A Faith-Based Christmas Package (12/2001)
- The Real Religious Establishment (10/2001)
- An Uphill Climb to True Tolerance (08/2001)
- We're All "Faith-Based" Now (05/2001)
- The Discrimination Olympics (04/2001)
- Mending the Breach (12/2000)
- Let Baptists be Baptists (04/2000)
- Gen X Politics (09/1999)
- Ten Commandment Politics (07/1999)
- Columbine High, Clinton, and Kosovo (05/1999)
- Confessions of the Master of Spin (03/1999)
- Taking Slavery Seriously (01/1999)
- Impeachment is Office Politics (10/1998)
- Religious Liberty and the Zealot State (08/1998)
Stephen Monsma
- School Prayer—Again (05/2008)
- Equal Treatment Lessons from Abroad (04/2004)
- A European View of President Bush (11/2003)
- After the War (03/2003)
- Whose Social Services Are They? (09/2002)
- Capital Punishment: For the Exceptional Case (01/1998)
Stephen V. Monsma
- The Religious Right Is Breaking Up (12/2007)
- The Supreme Court and Partial-Birth Abortion (04/2007)
- What Now? (11/2006)
- Fences and Walls (05/2006)
- Will John Roberts Judge Faithfully? (08/2005)
- The Second Bush Inauguration (01/2005)
Steven E. Meyer
- Israel and Palestine: Why Is This Issue So Difficult? (03/2008)
- A Long, Tough Road (02/2007)
- After the Neo-Cons (12/2006)
- Christians and Climate Change (02/2006)
- Iraq, Intelligence, and Policy (12/2005)
- Light at the End of the Tunnel (10/2005)
Steven Meyer
- Why Global Climate Change is Different (08/2007)
- Last Gasp? (04/2006)
- China Rising (05/2005)
- Two Crises, Two Failures (08/2004)
- Our Last Pre-emptive War? (03/2004)
- Lessons From Iraq (06/2003)
- The Rush to War (02/2003)
- Grasping for the Past in Europe? (11/2002)
- Imperialist Blinders? (08/2002)
- Breaking the Cycle of Middle East Violence (03/2002)
Tim Sherratt
- Presidential Primary Paradoxes (02/2008)
- Are Presidential Candidates Fit for Office? (11/2007)
- Health Care for a Healthy Polity (06/2006)
- The State of the Labor Unions (06/2005)
Timothy Sherratt
- An Uncertain Victory for the Faith-Based Initiative (07/2007)
- Vote for Change, Get a Troop Surge (02/2007)
- Many a Slip from Party Philosophy to Governing Policy (08/2006)
- Prophetic Politics Goes to Washington? (03/2006)
- The Redistricting Game: Parties 2, Citizens 0 (11/2005)
- Iraqi Elections: Way Ahead of Us? (02/2005)
- Moral Issues, Divided Society, and the Elections (11/2004)
- Doing Justice to Environmental Complexity (08/2004)
- Reagan—Bush 2004? (06/2004)
- Postponing the Kerry Coronation (02/2004)
- The Myth of Essential Privateness (11/2003)
- Help California Vote! (08/2003)
- An Iraqi Democracy Should Be A Pluralist Democracy (05/2003)
Timothy Stoen
- Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died (10/2007)
Tracy Kuperus
- Zimbabwe's Mess and the U.S. Response (07/2003)
William Harper; Timothy Sherratt
- The Redistricting Game: Parties 2, Citizens 0 (11/2005)
- Iraqi Elections: Way Ahead of Us? (02/2005)
- Moral Issues, Divided Society, and the Elections (11/2004)
- Doing Justice to Environmental Complexity (08/2004)
- Reagan—Bush 2004? (06/2004)
- Postponing the Kerry Coronation (02/2004)
- The Myth of Essential Privateness (11/2003)
- An Iraqi Democracy Should Be A Pluralist Democracy (05/2003)
William Zimmerman
- Party Loyalty: Why Expect It? (07/2001)