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...
Will Britain legalize human cloning? The Daily Telegraph reports today that Dr. Ian Wilmut, the lead researcher in the cloning of "Dolly," the first cloned mammal, is now behind the effort -- even as he had steadfastly opposed such efforts in the pa ...
"Heroin doesn't hook people; rather, people hook heroin." Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist and skilled essayist, has written an important article on the illusion of addiction. In "Poppycock,' published in the May 25, 2006 edition of The Wall Street ...
Philip Marchand argues that the generation born between between the G.I. Generation and the Baby Boomers set the stage for the rebellions of the 1960s and the great social transformations of the 1970s. Writing in The Toronto Sun, Marchand argues tha ...
The Kentucky State School Board has placed itself at the center of an expanding controversy as it has debated replacing references to B.C. and A.D. with B.C.E. and C.E. in social studies materials. Of course, B.C. refers to "Before Christ" and A.D. ...
Week by week, Lee Siegel of The New Republic offers some of the most insightful cultural analysis to be found anywhere. In this week's issue, he considers the meaning of Oprah Winfrey, arguing that Oprah represents the apex of television as a cultur ...
Newsweek introduces its readers to the movement it calls the "Lohasians" in the magazine's June 5, 2006 edition. According to Steven Waldman of Beliefnet.com, "Lohasian" is an acronym for "Lifestyles of Heath and Sustainability." Here's how the Loh ...
According to a new study, British men lead all others in the consumption of online pornography. The study was commissioned by The Independent [London] and the results seem to have shocked the paper's reporters, Anthony Barnes and Sophie Goodchild: ...
Is the world of fashion the implacable enemy of modesty in dress? Pia Catton considers this question in a most interesting essay published in the current edition of In Character. In "Dressing for the Occasion: When is Allure a Fashion Slip?," she arg ...
I had the privilege of addressing the New Attitude 2006 conference in Louisville Monday, leading a session on a Christian understanding of sexuality in light of contemporary challenges. It was a tremendous experience -- just seeing all those highly ...
The conviction of Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skillings is an historic development in the world of business and in the field of criminal prosecution, but the whole case raises more questions than these convictions can answer. Some immed ...