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Is Same-Sex Marriage Inevitable?

Is same-sex marriage inevitable? That question takes on a new urgency in the wake of the U.S. Senate's shameful failure to affirm the Marriage Protection Act. Some observers see the normalization of same-sex marriage as inevitable. They may be rig ...

June 8, 2006

A Quarter Century of AIDS — What Have We Learned?

"After a quarter century, the devastating outbreak of the human immunodeficiency virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is still surging, a savage wonderment of microbiology." So writes Loretta McLaughlin in The Boston Globe. Further ...

June 7, 2006

Roger Kimball on “The Forgotten Founder”

Roger Kimball of The New Criterion argues that John Witherspoon should be rediscovered as "The Forgotten Founder." As he explains, "This Scotch Presbyterian divine came to America to preside over a distressed college in Princeton, New Jersey, and wo ...

June 7, 2006

What Happened at Haditha?

Did a squad of U.S. Marines kill 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha? The charge is among the most serious that can be leveled in a time of war. Just war principles require that combatants protect non-combatants in so far as this is possible. The principle ...

June 7, 2006

06-06-06 — Is This a Day to Fear?

Well, the inevitable hand-wringing over today's numerical date is in full swing. In some cities, mothers are demanding that their Caesarian procedures be postponed a day. Other worried citizens are planning to spend the day either hidden away or on a ...

June 6, 2006

The Senate and the Marriage Protection Amendment

The Federal "Marriage Protection Amendment" is set to hit the floor of the U.S. Senate today, though opponents may block a yes or no vote. In any event, it is an important event. Opponents of the measure have now found their mantra, arguing that it i ...

June 6, 2006

Britain to Legalize Human Cloning?

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 ...

June 5, 2006

The Illusion of Addiction?

"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 ...

June 5, 2006

The “In-Between Generation” — What is Its Legacy?

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 ...

June 5, 2006

B.C. and A.D. or B.C.E. and C.E.? The Battle Over History

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. ...

June 2, 2006