The American pope: What does the election of Pope Leo XIV mean?

The Roman Catholic Church has a new pope, and it didn’t take the papal conclave long to make it happen. On the fourth ballot, taken in the grandeur of...

June 9, 2025

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More Americans Living Alone

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that more Americans are living in single-person households. According to a report in the Associated Press, "the number of Americans living alone has exceeded the number of households comprised of the classic nuclear fam ...

September 14, 2005

Hamsters Impacted by Cigarette Smoke

From the latest scientific research: Hamsters exposed to cigarette smoke are significantly less likely to conceive, according to a recent study from the University of California at Riverside. The researchers found that he microscopic hairs, or cilia, ...

September 14, 2005

Culture Watch — Cosmetic Surgery and the Customized Self

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 ...

September 14, 2005

The Roberts Hearings and the Battle of Ideas

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 ...

September 13, 2005

Is Same-Sex Marriage Inevitable?

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 ...

September 12, 2005

Jonathan Edwards for the Age of Therapy?

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 ...

September 10, 2005

Delaying Marriage — Another Look at the Costs

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 ...

September 10, 2005

The Brave New World of Designer Babies?

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 ...

September 9, 2005

‘Decivilization’ Not as Far Away as We Think?

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 ...

September 8, 2005

Gov. Schwarzenegger Promises to Veto Same-Sex Marriage Bill

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 ...

September 8, 2005