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...
1. Conductor Daniel Barenboim presented this year's Reith Lectures for the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC]. The lectures were presented in Jerusalem -- a context which added drama and a sense of both history and tragedy to Barenboim's lectures ...
USA Today reports that the pornography industry is ready to sell ready-to-play videos for televisions that are downloaded from a personal computer and then burned directly onto a DVD. From the article: Hollywood has been tiptoeing its way toward le ...
Frank Feredi, a leftish academic in Britain (Professor of Sociology, University of Kent), has had enough of the happiness experts. His essays are usually controversial, and I do not often find myself in enthusiastic agreement with his analysis. Never ...
Michael Clough, a specialist on African issues, argues that the murderous tragedy in the Darfur region of Sudan is not, properly speaking, genocide. In, "It's Hell in Darfur, But Is it Genocide?," published in the Mary 14, 2006 edition of The Los An ...
No one will agree with everything Professor Bruce Kuklick of the University of Pennsylvania argues in this opinion piece published Sunday in The Los Angeles Times, but it demands to be read anyway. In "Bright and Wrong," he argues that intellectuals ...
Carl Bialik, "The Numbers Guy" columnist at The Wall Street Journal, looks at how some researchers try to project what a mom should be paid if mothers were paid as "domestic professionals." By any measure, the executive, administrative, medical, nutr ...
Kay S. Hymowitz of City Journal observes that author Caitlin Flanagan has kicked up quite a storm with her new book, To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife. Ideological feminists hate the book. Why? As Hymowitz explains: Flan ...
You know the times are getting strange when a business known as "fertility tourism" makes the major media. The Guardian [London] reports that Britain's new law requiring the identification of egg and sperm donors has led (surprisingly enough) to a b ...
The Associated Press reports that the Vatican and the World Council of Churches are working on "a common code for religious conversions." The groups are also expected to seek contributions to the process from Muslim leaders, among others. "How can w ...
Now here's an interesting story: The Christian Science Monitor reports that some Muslims are pushing and planning for a re-establishment of the caliphate -- the rule of all Muslims under one transnational government. From the ariticle: Hizb ut-Tahr ...