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...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...