Every generation has its own formative moments. In just a few generations, the prominent memories shifted from “Remember the Alamo” to “Remember Pearl...
For decades now, leading American conservatives have accused the political left of being soft on crime. This charge against the political left in the ...
Committee hearings and meetings of the U.S. Senate are often routine and uneventful, but one hearing this week turned into something truly consequenti...
To see him around children was to catch a glimpse of his gift. Over dinner in our home, my wife and I noticed that Dr. James Dobson had chosen to sit ...
Press reports indicate that a leading American medical center, The Cleveland Clinic, is ready to start an experimental program in human face transplantation. This represents a host of truly ominous and complicated ethical issues, ranging from what wo ...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., one of the paladins of American liberalism, remembers the late Reinhold Niebuhr in Sunday's edition of The New York Times. Schlesinger and his generation were shaped by Niebuhr's "rediscovery" of the doctrine of sin ...
The sexual issues now confronting our nation--from the breakdown of the family to same-sex marriage--are really pieces of a much larger puzzle. In order to understand what is happening, one must look carefully at the entire picture, the entire trajec ...
Here's a bit of common sense verified by science and modern medicine. Delaying marriage often leads to a delay in having babies. Now, BBC News reports that women delaying children until after age 35 are risking both health and heartbreak. Over the la ...
The Guardian [London} reports: Fertility ships where British couples will be able to receive treatment forbidden in the UK could soon be anchored off the coast in international waters. Entrepreneurs are planning to hire ships to offer treatments that ...
Grace Dyck offers a troubling view into her experience as a student in a 'Family Studies" course at the university level. "Finally, I thought. I'll get some solid instruction to aide me as I build a family. Wrong again." She was enrolled in several c ...
Newsweek reports that educators are finding that boys and girls learn differently - leading to a reconsideration of educating boys and girls together in the same classroom. In "Boy Brains, Girl Brains," reporter Peg Tyre lays out the story -- and the ...
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music, The Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian & Gay Studies, and other Yale University programs have announced a conference entitled, "Sex and Religion in Migration." Curious? See the announcement: Welcome to the web ...
My commentary for today, "Is the Pledge of Allegiance Unconstitutional?," deals with the meaning of Judge Lawrence Karlton's ruling that the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in the public schools is unconstitutional. The fallout from this ridic ...
The Guardian [London] reports that a Chinese cosmetic company is preparing a line of beauty products for sale in Europe that uses skin harvested from the corpses of executed prisoners. Consider these excerpts from the paper's investigative report: A ...