The courage and clarity of President Trump’s executive orders on gender identity Last week, flanked by a small army of girls and young women, Presi...
Young men are turning to conservatism—in politics and in Christianity They didn’t see this coming. Liberals in America are scratching their heads t...
The meaning of the president’s second term in office Monday was one of those very few days that draw a line in the sands of history. Amer...
The life and legacy of Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th President of the United States, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Ga., at age ...
Cosmetic surgery is becoming a rite of passage for many women -- a way to reinvent the self by the skill of a surgeon's knife. This is a major cultural shift, as cosmetic surgery is transformed from an eccentricity of the rich into a new normal for m ...
Confirmation hearings for the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts as the next Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court began Monday in Washington. At long last, the real battle of ideas now begins. This is an argument worth having, for it goes to the ...
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 ...