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The Kindergarten Code — The Ivy League for Five-Year-Olds

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 ...

December 1, 2005

Girls, Guys, and the Panda — The Battle of the Sexes at the Zoo

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 ...

November 30, 2005

Babies Surviving Abortion — “Substandard Medicine”

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 ...

November 30, 2005

Getting Ready for The Chronicles of Narnia

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 ...

November 29, 2005

How Not to Talk to Your Kids About Sex

Controversy has erupted over the American Girl dolls and the company's support for a group known as Girls Inc. The American Girl company had been well respected for its line of quality dolls and accessories and for its wholesome image. But all that c ...

November 29, 2005

How Not to Talk About Homosexuality

A speaker at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington provides a truly tragic example of how Christians must not talk about homosexuality. This is one of the most serious questions facing the Christian church -- a challenge to biblical authority and ...

November 28, 2005

Chosen Childlessness Revisited

Vincent J. Schodolski, national correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, deals with the intentional childlessness issue in "Pitter-patter of Little Feet Isn't for Them: Not Having Kids Sounds Great to Many Couples," a front-page story in Sunday's editi ...

November 28, 2005

Fair is Fair? Where the Logic of Civil Unions or Same-Sex Marriage Must Lead

Carol Sarler wants to enter into a civil union with her adult daughter. Nothing incestuous or lesbian, mind you. She just wants the tax savings and other benefits that come with the civil unions. Writing in today's edition of The Times [London], Sarl ...

November 28, 2005

The World’s Top Public Intellectual?

Christopher Orlet writes: A popularity contest for public intellectuals seems about as silly as a beauty contest for dogs. Still both are done. The latest -- and as far as I know the only -- was conducted by the journals Prospect and Foreign Policy. ...

November 28, 2005

President Bush in China — Brave Support for Religious Liberty

Before the week ends, I want to draw attention to what many (but not all) in the mainstream media have missed -- President George W. Bush's brave and strategic support for religious liberty during his recent visit to Asia. The President's first publ ...

November 25, 2005