The empire strikes back: An attack on a prominent classical Christian school shows the movement has the liberal establishment running scared A majo...
Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday today and the nation marks a milestone. Though a few retired presidents have reached a 90t...
Abortion at the center: Is Kamala Harris running for president of the United States or of Planned Parenthood? Vice President Kamala Harris told her...
“Never give in”: What in the world are they saying about Winston Churchill? My intense interest in Winston Churchill began when I was a 10-year-old...
Dan Haseltine, lead singer of the group, Jars of Clay, has written a moving and insightful article on marriage and the power to last. In "Longevity," published in the current issue of Relevant Magazine, he writes of observing his grandparents and th ...
Last week I looked at the false argument behind Ruth Gledhill's article in The Times [London] purporting to show that nations with a higher commitment to Christianity also experienced higher rates of various social pathologies. As I argued then, Gled ...
Last year, doctors at the Groningen Academic Hospital in the Netherlands applied for permission to perform euthanasia on babies -- even as they admitted they were already doing so. In 2003, the Dutch Medical Society appealed to the government to crea ...
In what must look like an exercise in self-parody, NBC plans to broadcast a new prime-time soap opera entitled "Inconceivable," which is fictionally located within a fertility clinic. Honest. Here's the scoop from NBC's Web site: This delightful ense ...
William Murchison takes a good look at the tragic collapse of Christian belief in Europe, describing Europe's vanishing faith in poetic terms: "Centuries of Christian belief swept away in a great cosmic sorting-out; history stood on its head." The ev ...
Brussels Journal is reporting the formalization of the first three-person civil union in The Netherlands. Victor de Bruijn of Roosendaal (a 46-year old man) "married" two women, Bianca (31) and Mirjam (35). The report: "I love both Bianca and Mirjam, ...
Think you've seen it all? Look at this report from The Telegraph [London]: Women are increasingly seeking inappropriate IVF treatment because they do not have the time or inclination for a sex life and want to "diarise" their busy lives. Wealthy care ...
Sociologist James Q. Wilson -- one of the most influential public policy analysts of our times -- considers our culture's conflicted state of mind on the issue of marriage. As always, his ideas are worthy of serious attention. Wilson's article, "The ...
Here's how to stack a deck for a false argument. Collect unrelated statistics and pass them off as proving causation. A decline in steel production may be an item of interest, but it doesn't have anything to do with a rise in asparagus eating among r ...
The Washington Post and other papers are reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to use taxpayer money to reimburse churches and other religious groups for aid suppied in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This is a ho ...