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 ...
The campus of George Washington University must be an interesting place to be -- and it looks like it may quickly become a lot more interesting. Consider these opening words from a report in The Washington Post: "The long-eroding boundaries that once ...
The great code word for art meant to scandalize is "transgressive." The term was well-established by the end of the 1960s, when artists sought to scandalize middle-class morality by "transgressing" moral boundaries. Artists and writers began pushing ...
Sunday's edition of The New York Times gave front-page attention to the problem of adolescent bullying on the Internet. There can be no question that the Internet and the explosion of social media have facilitated the arrival of a new and deeply sini ...
A proposal to build a theme park that would feature a life-size replica of Noah's Ark has set off a controversy in Kentucky that is worth watching. Within days, the controversy had spread to the pages of The New York Times and USA Today. So, who's a ...
If you were determined to consign a population to poverty and any number of social pathologies, how might you do it? If your design is to extend the effects of these pathologies and pains to successive generations, what might be your plan? The answer ...
Tel Aviv University archaeologist Israel Finkelstein argues that the kingdom of David and Solomon is a greatly embellished biblical fiction. Jerusalem, he argues, was a cow town, a "hill country village." David was an insurrectionist and bandit whose ...
One of the most important principles of Christian thinking is the recognition that there is no stance of intellectual neutrality. No human being is capable of achieving a process of thought that requires no presuppositions, assumptions, or inherited ...
In Sunday's edition of The New York Times -- the front page, no less -- reporter Paul Vitello writes about "a surprisingly fierce debate in the gentle world of yoga." Well, welcome to my world. My last few weeks have been heavy into "fierce debate" a ...
"When an institution so central to human experience suddenly changes shape in the space of a generation or two, it's worth trying to figure out why." Belinda Luscombe of TIME magazine made that observation in the course of reporting on a major study ...
Well, it looks like Georgia Baptists had a debate worth having. Associated Baptist Press reports that the Georgia Baptist Convention voted to separate itself from a church that has called a woman to serve as co-pastor. The vote was overwhelmingly in ...