The Roman Catholic Church has a new pope, and it didn’t take the papal conclave long to make it happen. On the fourth ballot, taken in the grandeur of...
In normal times, an institution like Harvard University thrives on publicity. Then again, these are not normal times. Harvard may be the most elite br...
Can a revolution come down to a pill? Over the past century, tidal waves of moral revolution have transformed society and reshaped our moral landscape...
Pope Francis, considered by Roman Catholic dogma to be Vicar of Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Patriarch of the West, Bishop of Rome...
Have you ever wished a machine a happy birthday? Consider this machine: "It weighs 6.4 ounces and consists of a few layers of circuit boards and electronic components, covered by a scan of white polycarbonate and stainless steel. It's slightly smalle ...
My current commentary considers Wayne Grudem's new book, Evangelical Feminism: A New Path to Liberalism?. This is a truly important new book, and one that has been urgently needed. The challenge of the egalitarian movement demands an answer, and Gru ...
"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 ...