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...
How can we define and defend human rights in a secular world? If God is dead, what secures the ought of human rights and human dignity? This may be one of the most haunting questions of our times. Writing in Crisis, Edward Feser argues that human ...
A group of liberal intellectuals and activists has released a statement calling for the nation to transcend contentious debates over same-sex marriage and sexuality by, in effect, abolishing marriage as a social norm and institution. For some time n ...
Elizabeth R. Schiltz has been called a "genetic outlaw." An associate professor of law at the University of St. Thomas, Professor Schiltz did the unthinkable -- she received a diagnosis that the child she was carrying would be a Down syndrome baby, a ...
Dorothea Israel Wolfson sees the very end of children's literature -- and she sees it in "the new 2,471-page, lap-crushing Norton Anthology of Children's Literature." Her review of the anthology, published in the summer edition of the Claremont Revie ...
"It just saddens me to see so many of our strong butch women giving up their womanhood to be a man." Now there's a statement your grandmother probably wouldn't understand. It was spoken by a character on "The L Word," a lesbian soap opera on televis ...
The signs are all around us -- school buses back on the streets, school supplies on display, families back in town -- the new school year is starting all over America. And as the school supplies -- we've come a long way from loose-leaf paper, number ...
It should seem obvious that one key determinant of a society's future prospects is its attitude toward children. The formula is quite simple -- no children . . . no future. Keep this in mind when you read the August 13, 2006 edition of The New York ...
Just whom does an atheist thank? That is the fascinating question addressed in philosopher Roland Aronson's article, "Thank Who Very Much?," published in the current issue of The Philosopher's Magazine. Aronson describes the problem eloquently: Liv ...
Joel Stein, columnist for The Los Angeles Times, thinks he has found the culprit behind our civilizational decline -- Elmo. That's right, Elmo of Sesame Street fame. "Yes, I know that children love Elmo," Stein admits, adding: "But children are idiot ...
Conservative Christians are often lampooned as the last hold-outs against the supposedly invincible theory of evolution. This is untrue on several counts. First, surveys consistently demonstrate that the vast majority of Americans reject Darwinian ev ...