Author: Stuart Whatley
Stuart Whatley is a writer and journalist in Washington, D.C.
The Story of the Smallpox Vaccines and Its Lessons for Today
Pox: An American History, by Michael Willrich (New York: Penguin Press, 2011, ISBN 9781594202865) 400 pp. Cloth, $27.95. During the first years of the twentieth century, smallpox, that most feared of scourges, became known as the “fool killer.” One simply had no excuse for catching it anymore. Any physician worth his salt knew the clinical …
Privilege and its Discontents
Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America’s Slide into Socialism, by Jim DeMint (Nashville, Tenn.: Fidelis Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8054-4957-0) 304 pp. Cloth $26.99. To Save America: Stoping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine, by Newt Gingrich (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2010, ISBN 978-1-59698-596-4) 356 pp. Cloth $18.95. If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, …
The Regrettable Return of ‘Nonsectarianism’
Endorsement [of religion] sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying messa ge to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community. —Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Lynch v. Donnelly (1984) At the close of his second term, during a special …