President Biden’s unpardonable pardon

President Biden’s unpardonable pardon: We must love our children both rightly and righteously “Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.” Those w...

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The Fragile World of the “Almost People”

According to official sources, Britain now counts 117,619 frozen human embryos in storage. As of 2003, U.S. sources counted over 400,000 human embryos then in frozen storage. By now, the count is sure to be much higher. What does this say about our u ...

March 14, 2006

Brokeback Backlash? Annie Proulx Speaks Her (Very Angry) Mind

Many Hollywood observers were shocked when the 2006 Best Picture Oscar went to Crash rather than to Brokeback Mountain, the tale of two homosexual cowboys. Interestingly, the creative types behind Brokeback sent mixed signals about the movie in the f ...

March 13, 2006

The Butcher of the Balkans Meets His Maker — On the Limitations of All Earthly Justice

Slobodan Milosevic's death by heart attack robs the world of the satisfaction of seeing him convicted of his terrible crimes against humanity. Those who looked to the International War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague for justice in his case will be deni ...

March 13, 2006

An Antidote to Nonsense — An Elegant Smackdown

Adam Liptak of The New York Times writes an insightful and timely reflection on the meaning of the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision in the case, Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights. One doesn't see this kind of writing eve ...

March 13, 2006

Barry Bonds, Steroids, and the Honor of Sports

Last Friday, on the radio program we discussed the Barry Bonds controversy and the Sports Illustrated cover story that documents his use and abuse of steroids and his association with some of the darkest figures hanging around the world of profession ...

March 13, 2006

Why Do Boys Read Girls’ Books?

Now here is a pressing and urgent question: Why would boys read books written for girls--books like the Laura Ingalls Wilder "Little House" series? Emily Bazelon, mother of two sons, thinks she has figured it out. "The conventional educational wisdo ...

March 10, 2006

Peggy Noonan on George Clooney

"We are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while," said George Clooney, accepting his Oscar as Best Supporting Actor. "I think it's probably a good thing," he added. Mr. Clooney has transformed himself into a political activist w ...

March 10, 2006

Fair Trade, Free Trade, and the Coffee Trade — What Do These Labels Mean?

How should one buy a cup of coffee? In times past, this hardly seemed to be a great moral question, but now things are different. Some coffee brands are listed as "Fair trade," which seems to imply that other coffee brands may be less than fairly tra ...

March 9, 2006

Why Not Privatize Marriage? Here’s Why

Law professor Colin P. A. Jones argues that marriage should be privatized -- severed from public control and laws. Writing in The San Francisco Chronicle, he set forth his case: A fundamental problem with marriage is that it only comes in one size. ...

March 9, 2006

Augustine Defends the Virgin Birth

In Augustine's time, as now, the doctrine of the Virgin Birth was under sustained attack. The key difference is that, in his time, the enemies of the doctrine did not often claim to be Christians. Here is a choice selection from William Griffin's t ...

March 8, 2006