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...

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President Carter Responds to My Commentary

Former President Jimmy Carter has responded to my commentary on his book, Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. I stand by my review, but out of respect for Mr. Carter, I will gladly publish his response in full: ___________________________ ...

November 14, 2005

The Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader relates an almost unbelievable account of a visit to Lexington by the national chaplain for Planned Parenthood. According to the paper, Planned Parenthood officials were shocked when very few ministers would agree to ...

November 14, 2005

Conservative Episcopalians Issue Warning

The New York Times reports today that conservative leaders in the Episcopal Church USA and the international Anglican communion have served notice that their communion is about to be split apart on the issues of biblical authority and theological acc ...

November 12, 2005

A New Threat to Human Dignity — Down’s Syndrome Revisited

The New England Journal of Medicine reported Thursday that doctors have developed a test that will screen for Down's syndrome as early as the first trimester of pregnancy. The Washington Post and The New York Times also reported the story. According ...

November 11, 2005

No, It’s Not Your Imagination — Sex on Television

The Kaiser Family Foundation released a major study on Wednesday, finding that the number of sex scenes on television has doubled since 1998. As the foundation summarized its findings: The study found that 70% of all shows include some sexual conten ...

November 11, 2005

Tutoring for Toddlers? A Call for Common Sense

Several listeners have asked about the comments I made on the air about the rise of commercial tutoring programs for preschoolers. The article I cited, "Preschoolers' Prep," was published in The Wall Street Journal back in July and many missed it du ...

November 9, 2005

Caught in the Act of Making a Point

OK, I'll admit I had a hidden agenda in writing today's commentary, "The Moral Education of Physicians--Why it Matters to All of Us." My main agenda was the column itself. The practice of medicine requires a moral education that is lost when the tr ...

November 8, 2005

Decadence on Display — Self-Mutilation as “Performance Art”

Art critic Roger Kimball once remarked that the art proudly identified as "transgressive" is now establishment art. The perverse has become the norm. An article published in Sunday's edition of The New York Times makes this point graphically clear. ...

November 8, 2005

What’s Missing in the Karl Rove-Joseph Wilson Affair? The Church

Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador, has accused White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove of leaking word that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. I raise this public controversy, still raging in the medi ...

November 7, 2005

The New York Times on “The 100-Minute Bible”

Word of "The 100-Minute Bible" has now reached The New York Times, which has published a report by Edward Wyatt. Wyatt's article describes "The 100-Minute Bible" as a condensation of the Bible into 50 pages, each with a segment designed to be read i ...

November 7, 2005