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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

Effects of Hurricane Wilma — Extensive But Not Widely Known

Hurricane Wilma caused considerable damage across South Florida, but, in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, this devastation received little national attention. South Florida is my home area, and my parents, siblings, and extended family remai ...

November 6, 2005

The Wind Strikes Again

A deadly tornado struck near Evansville, Indiana overnight, killing at least 23 persons as most were asleep. At least thirty other victims remained in critical condition as evening fell. The storm also caused damage in Henderson, Kentucky, where it t ...

November 6, 2005

God is “Not Locked Up” in the Bible — Bishop Robinson Speaks His Mind

The Guardian [London] reports that Bishop Gene Robinson -- the first openly homosexual bishop of the Episcopal Church USA, met this week with Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in London. According to the paper, the crisis sparked by B ...

November 4, 2005

The End of Monogamy?

Just recently, I discussed the article by Professor Peter Singer in the "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" series published in the September/October issue of Foreign Policy. The series is now available on-line, and that allows a look at another article in t ...

November 4, 2005