So boys shouldn’t play on girls teams? California’s governor suddenly affirms biology In a sudden affirmation of biological and moral sanity, Calif...
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...
In today's commentary I look at George Weigel's book, The Cube and the Cathedral, that laments and analyzes Europe's descent into secularism. America is different, of course, at least for now. At present, some of our more colorful rejectionists are a ...
French voters handed French President Jacques Chirac a devastating political defeat on Saturday, and their rejection of the proposed European constitution could spell the end of the vision for a European superstate. Chirac and his government have bee ...
When a civilization gives itself over to moral confusion, sex and love are the most obvious laboratories of experimentation--and thus, of controversy. Consider the following: ITEM ONE: Transgenderism Considered on "Larry King Live" Larry King intervi ...
Yesterday, historian James McPherson was interviewed on NPR's "Weekend Edition, Sunday" program about why soldiers fight. His book, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, is a classic model of using primary sources to revisit histor ...
My Memorial Day commentary for Beyond the News: "Cover them with beautiful flowers, deck them with garlands these brothers of ours, lying so silent by night and by day." Those were the words of poet Will Carleton speaking of the Civil War dead.Memori ...
As you prepare for worship this Lord's Day, remember that all true Christian worship is Trinitarian in shape and substance. Consider these words from Gregory of Nazianzus, [330-394 A.D.]: "No sooner do I conceive of the one than I am illuminated by t ...
Sociobiologists and anthropologists have warned that the human male might not survive--and some feminists hope for such a development. Now, scientists in the United States have found that exposure to some common chemicals can harm the development of ...
ITEM ONE: John M. Swomley, Professor Emeritus of Christian Social Ethics at the St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, is worried that Justice Antonin Scalia might be nominated as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Writing in Christian Et ...
The New York Times editorialized on the stem cell issue again, charging President Bush with pushing a theological agenda. In "The President's Stem Cell Theology," the paper charged that the President's policy on human embryonic stem cell research is ...
ITEM ONE: Today's commentary, "A Common Culture in the Age of Blogging?," takes a look at Terry Teachout's analysis of the loss of a common culture and the rise of the blogosphere. Teachout's outstanding artblog, About Last Night, is worth bookmarkin ...