The Roman Catholic Church has a new pope, and it didn’t take the papal conclave long to make it happen. On the fourth ballot, taken in the grandeur of...
In normal times, an institution like Harvard University thrives on publicity. Then again, these are not normal times. Harvard may be the most elite br...
Can a revolution come down to a pill? Over the past century, tidal waves of moral revolution have transformed society and reshaped our moral landscape...
Pope Francis, considered by Roman Catholic dogma to be Vicar of Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Patriarch of the West, Bishop of Rome...
The New York Times offers a rare and very solid report on the operations of a crisis pregnancy center and assistance ministry for women in today's edition. In "Some Abortion Foes Forgo Politics for Quiet Talk," reporter John Leland takes readers int ...
Robert H. Bork offers his list of the five most important books on the U.S. Constitution in "We The People," published in today's edition of The Wall Street Journal. His list: 1. The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. ...
My commentary today is about the NBC drama, "The Book of Daniel." Here is a news story from MediaWeek that gets to the bottom line of what the network is discovering after the show's opening episode -- advertisers aren't buying it. From MediaWeek: ...
From The Telegraph [London]: Hybrid rabbit-human embryos could be created in a plan under discussion by scientists and the fertility watchdog as a result of the Korean stem cell scandal. The team had intended to use human eggs to clone embryos in ...
Rob Moll of Christianity Today looks into the evangelical response to the new Vatican instructions on homosexuality for Catholic seminaries. His article, "Two Cheers for the Vatican," appears in the February 2006 edition of the magazine and is avail ...
Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Community Church and author of the best-selling book, The Purpose-Driven Life, was the subject of an interview in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday. The article, "The Purpose-Driven Pastor," is part of the paper's ...
Authors Jon D. Hanson and Adam Benforado argue that structural, intellectual, and social factors all play a part in the leftward drift evident in so many justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Their argument appears in "The Drifters: Why the Supreme Cou ...
John Feinstein offers an insightful and timely argument in today's edition of The Washington Post. In "Teach the 'Good Kids,'" Feinstein explains that athletes often get a pass on bad behavior -- even criminal behavior -- because teams are desperate ...
George Melloan, an influential columnist and international deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal, offers a most interesting perspective of the Israeli-Arab conflct in "Reviewing the Hundred Years' War," published in today's edition of the paper. ...
Reporter Elaine Jarvik of the Deseret News [Salt Lake City, Utah] offers a summary of the issues involved in transhumanisn and radical forms of human enhancement in "Shall We Enhance?," published in the January 7, 2006 edition of the paper. She repo ...