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...
Carol Platt Liebau thinks that if "religious" messages are to be censored in public because they offend secularists, then sexual messages should be curtailed as well. Writing in the Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times, she argues that enough is e ...
Gene Edward Veith, World Magazine's indispensable culture editor, sets the record straight on December 25 in the magazine's December 10 issue. According to conventional wisdom, Christmas had its origin in a pagan winter solstice festival, which the ...
News reports out of Israel indicate that the nation's parliament has devised a way to allow for euthanasia without violating Jewish law, which forbids human action in taking human life. According to The Telegraph [London], the legislators came up wit ...
Uriah Kriegel, who teaches philosophy at the University of Arizona, reports that slavery is alive and flourishing in some regions of the world. "Not many Americans know it," Kriegel explains, "but December 2 was International Abolition of Slavery Day ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...