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...
Several listeners have asked about the comments I made on the air about the rise of commercial tutoring programs for preschoolers. The article I cited, "Preschoolers' Prep," was published in The Wall Street Journal back in July and many missed it du ...
OK, I'll admit I had a hidden agenda in writing today's commentary, "The Moral Education of Physicians--Why it Matters to All of Us." My main agenda was the column itself. The practice of medicine requires a moral education that is lost when the tr ...
Art critic Roger Kimball once remarked that the art proudly identified as "transgressive" is now establishment art. The perverse has become the norm. An article published in Sunday's edition of The New York Times makes this point graphically clear. ...
Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador, has accused White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove of leaking word that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. I raise this public controversy, still raging in the medi ...
Word of "The 100-Minute Bible" has now reached The New York Times, which has published a report by Edward Wyatt. Wyatt's article describes "The 100-Minute Bible" as a condensation of the Bible into 50 pages, each with a segment designed to be read i ...
Hurricane Wilma caused considerable damage across South Florida, but, in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, this devastation received little national attention. South Florida is my home area, and my parents, siblings, and extended family remai ...
A deadly tornado struck near Evansville, Indiana overnight, killing at least 23 persons as most were asleep. At least thirty other victims remained in critical condition as evening fell. The storm also caused damage in Henderson, Kentucky, where it t ...
The Guardian [London] reports that Bishop Gene Robinson -- the first openly homosexual bishop of the Episcopal Church USA, met this week with Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in London. According to the paper, the crisis sparked by B ...
Just recently, I discussed the article by Professor Peter Singer in the "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" series published in the September/October issue of Foreign Policy. The series is now available on-line, and that allows a look at another article in t ...
I recently picked up another volume in "The Old Testament Library" series of biblical commentaries. Leviticus: A Commentary was written by Erhard S. Gerstenberger, professor of Old Testament at Philipps-Universitat, Marburg, Germany. Translated into ...