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 ...
Sunday's edition of The New York Times features a lead editorial that sets out its demands for a new associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The editorial, "The Right Kind of Justice," is filled with the kind of rhetoric we can expect in coming ...
Elina Furman writes about the emergence of the "boomerang nation" -- a nation of adult children who don't assume adult responsibilities, but come home to live again with parents. Don't get her wrong -- she's not opposed to the trend. She just wants t ...
Following my usual practice, a couple of years ago I quickly ran into a local card shop to pick up a Mothers Day card for my wife. Easy enough, you may say. Not so. Men are just not well equipped for greeting card shopping. It's bad enough to pay an ...
Historian David Halberstam, one of the most popular and influential historians of modern America, reflected on his generation as his Harvard class of 1955 celebrated its fiftieth reunion. In "A Modest Generation," published in the May-June 2005 issue ...
When the Church of England began ordaining women as priests back in 1994, ecclesiastical laws were put into place that prevented the election of a woman as bishop. As one Anglican friend told me at the time, the prohibition against women bishops was ...
A leading Roman Catholic cardinal has issued a statement that has caused quite a stir in both scientific and theological circles. Christoph Schonborn, the cardinal archbishop of Vienna, published his controversial remarks in the pages of The New York ...
On this Lord's Day, direct your thoughts to the vision of God revealed in Walter C. Smith's great hymn, "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise." The hymn is a beautiful and majestic testimony to the omniscience and sovereignty of our all-knowing God: Im ...
An honest sense of moral discomfort marks Jim Holt's article published in today's edition of The New York Times Magazine. In "Euthanasia for Babies?", Holt considers the now-infamous Groningen Protocols developed by a team of Dutch doctors. These med ...
My family and I stood on a dark beach in South Florida tonight, watching a great storm build on the horizon. The eye of Hurricane Dennis is still several hundred miles away, but the crushing surf and the gusting winds announce the coming storm. Alrea ...
Yesterday's edition of The New York Times includes an interesting opinion column by Bob Herbert entitled, "Dad's Empty Chair." Herbert writes with passion and insight about the problem of fatherlessness and what the absence of a father means. He look ...