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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

God Talk is Not a Game

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 ...

July 17, 2006

No Need for a Father?

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 ...

July 17, 2006

A Courageous Court Decision — Moral Clarity and Legal Restraint in New York

The decision against same-sex marriage handed down July 6 by the New York Court of Appeals (that state's highest court) continues to send shock waves across the nation. The first wave of media coverage focused on the fact that the court found no basi ...

July 14, 2006

India’s Missing Daughters

Can anything break the commitment of ideological feminists to abortion? A report out of India will test that question. According to The Daily Mail [London], at least 10 million baby girls have been aborted in India over the last twenty years – and li ...

July 13, 2006

The Media Elite Strike Again — Who Is Out of Touch?

America's media elite prove themselves time and again to be out of touch with the American people. Just consider a recent editorialin The Los Angeles Times. In this piece, the paper's editors lament the fact that the highest courts of New York and G ...

July 13, 2006

The Death of True Feminism — Harvey Mansfield Calls for a Recovery

Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan Professor of Government at Harvard University, and author of the recent book, Manliness, delivered an important commencement address at Hillsdale College in Michigan. In "A New Feminism" [published in Imprimis, ...

July 12, 2006