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Men Marrying Late — Or Not At All

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 ...

August 7, 2006

The Accommodating Middle

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 ...

August 4, 2006

Men Not at Work — A Symptom of Manhood in Crisis

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 ...

August 3, 2006

Moral Abdication in British Schools — A Sign of the Times

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 ...

August 1, 2006

America’s Gambling Hypocrisy

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 ...

July 27, 2006

The Right Medical Treament for Your Child — Who Decides?

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 ...

July 24, 2006

Whatever Happened to Summer Camp?

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 ...

July 24, 2006

A Courageous Veto — Just Who, After All, is Human?

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. ...

July 20, 2006

Happiness by Prescription?

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 ...

July 20, 2006

Addiction or Personal Responsibility?

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 ...

July 20, 2006