Summer Reading List 2025 R. Albert Mohler, Jr. July 7, 2025 Hello, I'm Albert Mohler. Welcome to In the Library. I'm going to talk about my 2025 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...