The empire strikes back

The empire strikes back: An attack on a prominent classical Christian school shows the movement has the liberal establishment running scared A majo...

November 3, 2024

Latest Articles

Articles Archives

Our Mission Field — The MySpace Generation

Just last week, I released a major commentary on the dangers of teenage blogging. In "Courting Dangers Online--Teenagers and the Internet," I reported on the fact that many teens and young adults are putting themselves at risk by revealing intimate d ...

December 8, 2005

The Disappearing Doctrine of Hell

Belief in hell is fast disappearing in Scotland, according to press reports. Reporter Donald MacLeod points to the fact that one third of Scottish clergy "still believe in the existence of hell." Of course, that means that the other two-thirds have d ...

December 7, 2005

Parental Notification and the Absolutism of the Abortion-Rights Movement

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley identifies himself as "pro-choice," but he sees a dangerous absolutism in the abortion movement. Writing in USA Today, he argues that the movement's opposition to parental notification laws r ...

December 7, 2005

Boys Will Be Boys — Just Try to Deny the Obvious

Steve Sailer reviews Leonard Sax's new book, Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences in the current issue of The Claremont Review . Sax's book is truly important, presenting some of the ...

December 6, 2005

How Christianity Nurtured Science

Rodney Stark, professor of the social sciences at Baylor University, argues that Christianity, far from inhibiting the development of science, actually gave birth to science in the Western world.  In "How Christianity (and Capitalism) Led to Science, ...

December 6, 2005

The Power of Words — A Witness

The estimable Michael Dirda, writer and editor for The Washington Post Book World, affirms the power of language in his review of The Book of Common Prayer: The Elizabethan Prayer Book, edited by John E. Booty. Against the modern depreciation of lan ...

December 5, 2005

Day One for Civil Unions in the UK — What Does it Mean?

Same-sex civil unions are set to become legal in the United Kingdom today. The civil partnerships will enjoy all the legal and financial protections previously reserved only for married heterosexual couples. As The Observer [London] explains: Gay co ...

December 5, 2005

Does Anyone Actually Play Music? Does it Matter to the Church?

Charles Rosen, an influential music critic, reviews Robert Philip's new book, Performing Music in the Age of Recording in The New York Review of Books. The article raises a number of important questions and issues. [Read Rosen's article, "Playing M ...

December 2, 2005

Winston Churchill in Retrospect

Yesterday was the anniversary of Winston Churchill's birth in 1874. That occasion offers me the opportunity to point once again to Churchill and the central role he played in the twentieth century. I will let Geoffrey Best, one of Churchill's finest ...

December 1, 2005

William F. Buckley, Jr. Turns 80

William F. Buckley, Jr., perhaps the single most influential conservative thinker in America today, turned 80 on November 24. National Review, the magazine he founded in 1955, became the engine for an intellectual awakening among American conservativ ...

December 1, 2005