We have to talk about the trans issue. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox appeared on several leading Sunday morning news programs this past weekend, and we need t...
Every generation has its own formative moments. In just a few generations, the prominent memories shifted from “Remember the Alamo” to “Remember Pearl...
For decades now, leading American conservatives have accused the political left of being soft on crime. This charge against the political left in the ...
Committee hearings and meetings of the U.S. Senate are often routine and uneventful, but one hearing this week turned into something truly consequenti...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Katherine Marsh of The New Republic is hoping to have a baby, so she is taking a folic acid vitamin after breakfast each day. Folic acid, she explains, "is the gateway drug to parenthood--the idea of having a child becomes serious when you start wor ...