The vast revolutions in morality that have reshaped the modern landscape have been spectacularly successful, with very few exceptions. In the last hal...
With Christmas just days away, the Vatican evidently thought it was high time to reverse 2,000 years of Christian tradition and allow priests to bless...
Most of us know we’re living in consequential times, but sometimes it seems we’re living in truly dangerous times. Just over the course of the last fe...
So, what about the new speaker of the House? Is he a kind and gracious man or “a right-wing fever dream come to life,” as one columnist declared? Actu...
The Boston Globe offers a frightening view of marriage in the eyes of young African-Americans. The article is haunting as it reveals the bleak view of marriage held by these young people: ``I'm not looking forward to marriage," says Nakeeda Burns , ...
The exploding controversy over Tour de France winner Floyd Landis raises all the big questions about athletics, character, integrity, and human enhancement. The final disposition of the case is still pending, but the question of doping, the use of ho ...
Professor Leon Kass, former chairman of President Bush's Council on Bioethics, issues a warning about the "technological mentality" that threatens to reduce all matters of morality to issues of technology and technique. Dr. Kass is a medical doctor, ...
The New York Times has been running a most interesting series of articles in recent weeks entitled "The New Gender Divide." In today's edition, the paper looks at a new pattern among men without college education -- marrying late or not at all. In ...
Robert A. J. Gagnon, Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, has contributed some of the most important biblical scholarship on the question of homosexuality and the New Testament. He is also a committed churchman who writes w ...
This article from Monday's edition of The New York Times is a sign of deep cultural distress -- of men without any sense of shame for not working. In "Men Not Working, And Not Wanting Just Any Job," reporters Louis Uchitelle and David Leonhardt tell ...
A newly-proposed national curriculum for British schools means that the schools will no longer attempt to teach the difference between right and wrong. As The Times [London] reports: Schools would no longer be required to teach children the differe ...
Jacob Weisberg of Slate.com offers a very interesting essay on this nation's proclivity for moral hypocrisy on the issue of gambling. In "Don't Bet on It," Weisberg argues that Americans are torn between wanting to curtail gambling and wanting to pr ...
The modern state is driven by an ambition to expand into every area of human activity. The logic of the expansive state is to control or regulate all dimensions of life. The personal and private is undermined in favor of the public and the politica ...
The American experience of summer camp, once almost regulation fare for adolescents and tweeners, is now headed to extinction -- or for radical revision. One problem is American parents, many of whom seem to consider the outdoors a newly dangerous en ...