John Lofton

Latest by John Lofton in Chronicles

• Vital Signs

  May 1995

  Mailer on Madonna

  It is appropriate that Norman Mailer should be ga-ga over Madonna, since Mailer's own lifestyle has been rather— how shall I put it—eccentric, as reported by Hilary Mills in her book Mailer: A Biography.

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• Reviews

  April 1995

  Sins of Omission

  The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind is that, as Mark Noll puts it, "there is not much of an evangelical mind"; that, despite all their other virtues, "American evangelicals are not exemplary for their thinking, and they have not been for several generations"; and that, at a popular level, "modern American evangelicals have failed notably in sustaining serious intellectual life."

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• Cultural Revolutions

  December 1994

  A Lot to Be Desired

  As an orthodox Bible-believing Christian, I find that much of what is said by the so-called "religious right" and "religious left"—to put it charitably—leaves a lot to be desired and is, ironically, un-Christian.

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• Cultural Revolutions

  November 1994

  Society is to Blame

  Patti Davis, Reagan's little girl whose nude body graced the cover of the July Playboy, has finally settled down, gotten her act together—and written a novel about bondage. Yes, bondage.

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• Cultural Revolutions

  August 1993

  Darwin Is Wrong

  Regarding the inaugural "poem" . . . Joan Rivers. Atrium. A poet manqué without a poem. Or even a coherent thought. But sexually, racially, politically correct. Living proof Darwin is wrong.

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• Correspondence

  July 1993

  Sex and Soldiering

  My, how time flies, sir. It seems like only yesterday (it was in late November 1991, actually) that you were apologizing after being caught telling a so-called gay-bashing anti-lesbian joke to Jerry Brown.

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• Vital Signs

  December 1989

  The Puritan and the Profligate

  John Lofton Interviews Allen Ginsberg

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