The empire strikes back: An attack on a prominent classical Christian school shows the movement has the liberal establishment running scared A majo...
Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday today and the nation marks a milestone. Though a few retired presidents have reached a 90t...
Abortion at the center: Is Kamala Harris running for president of the United States or of Planned Parenthood? Vice President Kamala Harris told her...
“Never give in”: What in the world are they saying about Winston Churchill? My intense interest in Winston Churchill began when I was a 10-year-old...
Our greeting cards betray us. According to Hallmark, Americans gave approximately 103 million Father's Day cards this past weekend, but only half of those were given to fathers. As Heather MacDonald reports in City Journal, Hallmark's 2007 line of o ...
Father's Day is fast becoming America's most socially awkward holiday. The reason is very simple -- the culture increasingly sees fathers as accessories, not as necessities. In some communities, as many as eighty percent of all babies are born to si ...
Gerard Baker asks an interesting question - If Hollywood is so liberal, why is it afraid of abortion? Writing in The Times [London], Baker points to a pair of recent Hollywood releases, both of which deal with the issue of an unplanned and unwanted ...
Summer is supposed to be a season of rest and relaxation -- at least in theory. As one wit remarked, "A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken." Fair enough. But ev ...
America is becoming more secular while Europe is growing less secular? That counter-intuitive analysis is offered by Ross Douthat in the current issue of The Atlantic. In "Crises of Faith," Douthat argues that secularism is on the rise in the United ...
Humanity now stands before a great and unavoidable question -- Do human beings face any natural limits? The rise of new medical and biological technologies threatens to redefine what it means to be human, even as an ideological revolution has led ma ...
Welcome to summer 2007 and the latest diagnosis of a problem among the younger set -- "nature-deficit disorder." A generation of children is growing up without much contact with nature, or the outdoor world in general. Leave it to Americans to expla ...
At Conventional Thinking, my Web site dedicated to issues of concern to the Southern Baptist Convention, there is a major new posting on the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Georgia and the fact that the church is set to elect a woman as pastor on Ju ...
The Economist [London], one of the world's great news organizations, publishes several major survey reports each year -- and each is priority reading for the world's leaders. This is certainly true of the most recent survey, "The World Goes to Town," ...
What happens when boys grow up without the influence of male authority? Stewart Dakers warns that the absence of engaged males in authority -- fathers in particular -- leads to brutal, crude, dangerous, and narcissistic teenage boys and young men. I ...