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...
"It's a miracle," said Loretta Ables, who said her fiancé, Fred Ware, was among the survivors. "Everyone was telling us they were probably dead." Sadly, they were. After a night that saw elation turn to sorrow, we now know that only one miner survi ...
Don't even ask me how I came across this, but I just had to pass it on. Here is conclusive proof that civilization is crumbling all around us -- in the form of an article on the "hidden genius" of The Dukes of Hazzard. The article points to the cult ...
A Lutheran high school in Riverside, California is being sued for discrimination after expelling two students suspected of lesbianism. The case is a bit convoluted, but the arguments put forth by the attorney representing the girls and their parents ...
Joseph Epstein, one of my favorite literary essayists, offers a fascinating look at the decline of daily newspapers in "Are Newspapers Doomed?," published in the current issue of Commentary. A sampling: Much cogitation has been devoted to the questio ...
Newsweek's magazine for college students, Current, features an interesting article, "Monkey Business," on the campus presence of students who do not accept evolution. It's worth a look. Writer Victoria Bosch, a senior at Penn State University, repo ...
With this posting, we begin a new feature for 2006 -- Worldviews at Work. These articles will draw attention to the impact of worldviews on the way people think about the issues of the day. We'll be looking for examples of what happens when people ac ...
Reports coming our of Korea indicate that the entire research project headed by Dr. Woo-Suk Hwang was based on fakery and fraud. The Globe and Mail [Toronto] reports: An already disgraced scientist lied about all of the stem-cell lines he claimed w ...
On December 26, 2004, entire regions of the Indian Ocean basin were devastated by giant waves of water, caused by an underwater earthquake in a volitile and active subduction zone. The world watched in horror as the scale of devastation became clea ...
Rodney Stark, whose newest book, The Victory of Reason, is excerpted in Sunday's edition of The New York Times, provides a brilliant analysis of the most basic difference between the East and the West on the question of theology: To fully appreciate ...
Monday's edition of The Los Angeles Times included another important report on the spread of internet pornography. Reporter Marianne Szegedy-Maszak cites industry sources and points to 200 new pornography sites on the Internet each day. In her arti ...