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...
James Lovelock, the originator of the "Gaia" hypothesis, now argues that planet Earth is doomed and there is nothing we can do about it. Lovelock argued thirty years ago that the earth is regulated by a planetary-scale control system he named "Gaia." ...
The New York Times offers a rare and very solid report on the operations of a crisis pregnancy center and assistance ministry for women in today's edition. In "Some Abortion Foes Forgo Politics for Quiet Talk," reporter John Leland takes readers int ...
Robert H. Bork offers his list of the five most important books on the U.S. Constitution in "We The People," published in today's edition of The Wall Street Journal. His list: 1. The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. ...
My commentary today is about the NBC drama, "The Book of Daniel." Here is a news story from MediaWeek that gets to the bottom line of what the network is discovering after the show's opening episode -- advertisers aren't buying it. From MediaWeek: ...
From The Telegraph [London]: Hybrid rabbit-human embryos could be created in a plan under discussion by scientists and the fertility watchdog as a result of the Korean stem cell scandal. The team had intended to use human eggs to clone embryos in ...
Rob Moll of Christianity Today looks into the evangelical response to the new Vatican instructions on homosexuality for Catholic seminaries. His article, "Two Cheers for the Vatican," appears in the February 2006 edition of the magazine and is avail ...
Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Community Church and author of the best-selling book, The Purpose-Driven Life, was the subject of an interview in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday. The article, "The Purpose-Driven Pastor," is part of the paper's ...
Authors Jon D. Hanson and Adam Benforado argue that structural, intellectual, and social factors all play a part in the leftward drift evident in so many justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Their argument appears in "The Drifters: Why the Supreme Cou ...
John Feinstein offers an insightful and timely argument in today's edition of The Washington Post. In "Teach the 'Good Kids,'" Feinstein explains that athletes often get a pass on bad behavior -- even criminal behavior -- because teams are desperate ...
George Melloan, an influential columnist and international deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal, offers a most interesting perspective of the Israeli-Arab conflct in "Reviewing the Hundred Years' War," published in today's edition of the paper. ...