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...
This article from Monday's edition of The New York Times is a sign of deep cultural distress -- of men without any sense of shame for not working. In "Men Not Working, And Not Wanting Just Any Job," reporters Louis Uchitelle and David Leonhardt tell ...
A newly-proposed national curriculum for British schools means that the schools will no longer attempt to teach the difference between right and wrong. As The Times [London] reports: Schools would no longer be required to teach children the differe ...
Jacob Weisberg of Slate.com offers a very interesting essay on this nation's proclivity for moral hypocrisy on the issue of gambling. In "Don't Bet on It," Weisberg argues that Americans are torn between wanting to curtail gambling and wanting to pr ...
The modern state is driven by an ambition to expand into every area of human activity. The logic of the expansive state is to control or regulate all dimensions of life. The personal and private is undermined in favor of the public and the politica ...
The American experience of summer camp, once almost regulation fare for adolescents and tweeners, is now headed to extinction -- or for radical revision. One problem is American parents, many of whom seem to consider the outdoors a newly dangerous en ...
President George W. Bush exercised his presidential veto power for the first time on Wednesday, vetoing a House of Representatives bill that would have forced an expansion of the President's policy on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. ...
The current cover article for the Harvard Magazine raises basic questions about the psychiatric profession. Nevertheless, the article should be of interest to anyone concerned about the human condition -- and especially to those concerned about the ...
Dr. Theodore Dalrymple [actually the pen name for Anthony (A.M.) Daniels, M.D.] offers another article debunking the addiction hypothesis in The Times [London]. Dr. Dalrymple is a prison doctor and psychiatrist who writes with extraordinary insight a ...
Back in June, I commented on the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s vote to "receive" a report advocating the use of alternative language for the Trinity. The proposed "triads" include "Rainbow, Ark and Dove," "Speaker, Word and Breath," "Overflowing Fon ...
Britain's government is set to revise the nation's Fertilisation and Embryology Act next year and the new law will represent a cultural shift that reaches far beyond the issue of reproductive technologies. The new law will replace the words "need fo ...