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...
Matthew Stewart's book, The Courier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World, (W. W. Norton and Company, 2006), mentioned in this week's commentary, is a fascinating account of one of those rare historical events tha ...
Declarations of social revolutions are often overblown. After all, the technological advances of the last two centuries include everything from the harnessing of steam engines to the promise of nanotechnology. Nevertheless, the 25th anniversary of th ...
I don't often link to The Nation, nor am I often in agreement with Nicholas von Hoffman. Nevertheless, his recent column on Trump University will brighten your weekend. It seems that Donald Trump -- known for transforming monomaniacal narcissism into ...
Edmund Wilson once described Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln as "the worst thing to happen to Lincoln since his assassination." That acerbic comment came to mind as I read this article published in The Times [London]. This tim ...
The current issue of Christianity Today offers an interesting cover story entitled, "The Case for Kids." Written by Leslie Leyland Fields, the article also features a fascinating subtitle -- "A defense of the large family by a 'six time breeder.'" M ...
The Boston Globe offers a frightening view of marriage in the eyes of young African-Americans. The article is haunting as it reveals the bleak view of marriage held by these young people: ``I'm not looking forward to marriage," says Nakeeda Burns , ...
The exploding controversy over Tour de France winner Floyd Landis raises all the big questions about athletics, character, integrity, and human enhancement. The final disposition of the case is still pending, but the question of doping, the use of ho ...
Professor Leon Kass, former chairman of President Bush's Council on Bioethics, issues a warning about the "technological mentality" that threatens to reduce all matters of morality to issues of technology and technique. Dr. Kass is a medical doctor, ...
The New York Times has been running a most interesting series of articles in recent weeks entitled "The New Gender Divide." In today's edition, the paper looks at a new pattern among men without college education -- marrying late or not at all. In ...
Robert A. J. Gagnon, Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, has contributed some of the most important biblical scholarship on the question of homosexuality and the New Testament. He is also a committed churchman who writes w ...