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...
The furor over California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's promised veto of the same-sex marriage bill that passed the state's legislature has set off a firestorm of outrage among gay rights activists and the nation's liberal commentators. Imbedded w ...
Allen C. Guelzo has written an insightful and argumentative review essay on recent interpretations of Jonathan Edwards. In "Unpalatable to Modern Sensibilities," Guelzo reviews Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical, by Philip F. Gura -- and then go ...
Danielle Crittenden, author of What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us, has written a must-read article, "The Cost of Delaying Marriage." The article has recently been republished by Boundless.org. This is an issue I address often, and I appreciate Crittende ...
Scientists in the United Kingdom have been pressing the ethical boundaries in biomedical research for some time now, but an announcement made today takes us further toward the posthuman future many of us have been dreading. Even as Britain's Human Fe ...
Historian Timothy Garton Ash argues that what he calls "decivilization" lies very close to the surface of human life. Add a natural disaster or human tragedy, and the base instincts of human nature soon triumph over order and respect for other human ...
From The San Francisco Chronicle: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, under growing pressure from his conservative supporters, promised Wednesday to veto the gay-marriage bill passed less than a day earlier by the Democrat-led Legislature. The Legislature's ...
From The Los Angeles Times: The California Legislature made history Tuesday as the Assembly passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. With no votes to spare, California's lawmakers became the first in the United States to act without a court order ...
Niall Ferguson -- our greatest living historian of empire, and a generally sound thinker -- really misses the mark when he addresses the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. Writing in The Telegraph [London], Ferguson [a professor of history at Harvard Univ ...
Few observers were shocked when President George W. Bush nominated Judge John Roberts to succeed Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on Monday. After all, Judge Roberts seems to represent all that President Bush expects of a jurist -- a conservative j ...
George Will's "The Last Word" column in this week's issue of Newsweek raises several of the most important questions posed by Hurrican Katrina and its aftermath -- inclusing the purpose of government and the nature of humanity. In "Leviathan in Loui ...