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Manliness — The Forgotten (and Forbidden) Virtue

"Today the word manliness seems quaint and obsolete," writes Harvey C. Mansfield. "We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems to describe the essence of ...

October 23, 2006

Dawkins and The God Delusion Revisited

Richard Dawkins and his new book, The God Delusion, continue to attract media attention and reviews. Dont miss these two reviews, published in recent days. In "Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching," literary theorist Terry Eagleton begins his review essay ...

October 23, 2006

U.S. News Looks at Science and the Soul

What is human consciousness? Jay Tolson of U.S. News and World Report considers that question in the magazine's current cover story: "Science and the Soul." He gets right to the crucial question in the article's lead paragraph: "A mind is a tough thi ...

October 20, 2006

So, You Mean I’m Not Really Good at Math?

The Brookings Institution released a report yesterday on an interesting phenomenon that has appeared in recent years. American students do comparatively poorly in math compared to students of other nations -- but they feel really good about themselve ...

October 19, 2006

Gender Confusion in the Kindergarten?

Some cultural developments represent massive shifts in consciousness and worldview. These developments can only be explained by a dramatic reshaping of our moral sense and understanding of basic reality. Such is the case with news coming from both ...

October 18, 2006

Marriage Only for a Minority? Not Hardly

The New York Times announced its story on the new Census Bureau data with this headline: "To Be Married Means to Be Outnumbered."  How so? Here is the lead sentence: "Married couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of ...

October 17, 2006

Television Viewing and Autism . . . a Link?

Researchers at Cornell University are reporting a "statistically significant relationship" between autism and early television viewing in children. The best summary of the findings is available at Slate.com in an article by Gregg Easterbrook. As Ea ...

October 17, 2006

John Stott on Christ and the Bible

Christianity Today magazine offers an important interview with evangelical leader John R. W. Stott in its current issue. Now 85, Stott was for many years pastor of All Souls Church, Langham Place, in London. He is also one of evangelicalism's most pr ...

October 13, 2006

The Morality of Knowledge

The threat of nuclear weapons in North Korean is deeply troubling. The very idea that the Hermit Kingdom could be armed with nuclear weapons is enough to send the rest of the world into a state of international anxiety. The political and military dim ...

October 12, 2006

Europeans Awakening to the Islamic Threat?

Will Europe become the heart of a new Islamic civilization? A growing number of Europeans are waking up to the threat. In "Across Europe, Worries on Islam Spread to Center," reporters from The New York Times trace the growing consensus in Europe tha ...

October 11, 2006