President Biden’s unpardonable pardon: We must love our children both rightly and righteously “Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.” Those w...
The Culture of Death scores in Britain: A post-Christian society surrenders to “assisted death” Once again, the Culture of Death scored big last we...
Collapse in the cathedral: A scandal in the Church of England reveals big lessons for all Christians Headlines around the world last week told of t...
It was a night to remember. We went into Tuesday evening with the constant reminder that the presidential race would be among the tightest in recent h...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Author Ralph Schoenstein once described the culture of the overly-ambitious as "a world where parents are competing to see whose child can be pushed out of childhood first, a world that moved one cartoonist to show a mother asking a father, 'But if e ...
Tai Shan is the new "chick magnet" at The National Zoo in Washington, DC. Tai Shan is a giant panda cub, and The Washington Times reports that women all over Washington are swooning. "He is too cute, say he is," quipped Aqsa Khan, 24, of Woodbridge ...
The Times [London] reports that an agency of the British government is set to investigate reports that up to 50 babies a year are born alive after botched abortions. See this: The investigation, by the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child He ...
The Walt Disney Company and Walden Media are set to release The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe on December 9 -- so get ready for a major cultural event. I'll provide much more material about the series, the movie, C. S. L ...