President Biden’s unpardonable pardon: We must love our children both rightly and righteously “Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.” Those w...
The Culture of Death scores in Britain: A post-Christian society surrenders to “assisted death” Once again, the Culture of Death scored big last we...
Collapse in the cathedral: A scandal in the Church of England reveals big lessons for all Christians Headlines around the world last week told of t...
It was a night to remember. We went into Tuesday evening with the constant reminder that the presidential race would be among the tightest in recent h...
"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 ...
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 ...