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...
J. I. Packer defends the English Puritans in "Physicians of the Soul," an article published in the Winter 2006 issue of Christian History magazine. Packer sets the record straight on a number of issues. Consider these statements: Their dream was h ...
In this age of technological marvels, we humans increasingly place our trust in the instruments and promises of technology and technological expertise. Now a movement has been started to bring technology to the underprivileged of the world in the for ...
As many had warned, the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan has now spread into neighboring Chad, with Arab gunmen crossing the border and creating a new refugee emergency. As The New York Times reports: Arab gunmen from Darfur have pushed across t ...
Columnist George F. Will discussed the Animal Welfare Bill proposed by Britain's Labour government in a recent Newsweek column. The bill sounds like a parody of political correctness, but it is actually further evidence of how the concept of "rights" ...
The death of a man who brought so many, including my own family, so much wholesome laughter should not pass without notice here. Don Knotts was most famous for playing "Barney Fife," the awkward and nervous deputy to TV's Sheriff Andy Griffith. The ...
I seriously doubt that many Americans take Dolly Parton's views on any subject with much concern, but she has decided to join the ranks of the politically correct in a big way. Yesterday, in the pages of USA Today, she made a plea for tolerating diff ...
This week, The Christian Century features an interview with Elizabeth Marquardt, author of Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce. Marquardt's research helps to document the fact that there is no such thing as the "good divorce," ...
Are stay at home moms a threat to civilization? Those of you who are shocked by this question should take note of the fact that ABC's "Good Morning America" program devoted segments to this question on two successive days, featuring the arguments of ...
I was interested and somewhat amused to see The Wall Street Journal quote Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz in its front-page story on the resignation of Harvard president Lawrence Summers [see entries below]. Here is how the paper set up the qu ...
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to accept the government's appeal on the partial-birth abortion law is good news, and observers of the court will be watching closely as the justices hear the case in the fall. As The Los Angeles Times explained, "T ...