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 Washington Post reports that the stem cell research controversy is spreading from Washington throughout the nation. In reporter Peter Slevin's words: The moral debate over embryonic stem cells stretches far beyond Capitol Hill to state capitals a ...
The group known as NARAL Pro-Choice America has launched an advertising campaign that opposes the confirmation of John Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court. The television ad is truly odious, demonstrating a fundamental lack of honesty and human decency ...
Professor Daniel Sarewitz of Arizona State University sees the controversy in sports over the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs as part of a larger and more threatening issue -- the use of performance-enhancing technologies to red ...
TIME magazine is out this week with a big cover story on the latest controversy over the theory of evolution -- a controversy sparked anew by President George W. Bush's statement about the theory known as "Intelligent Design." In "The Evolution Wars, ...
The Wall Street Journal reports that the new Hollywood trend is women involved in physical conflict -- sometimes against each other. Christine Rosen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center argues in "Female Fight Club" that this trend can be traced to ...
My commentary today, "Hiroshima and the Burden of History," attempts to consider the moral issues that remain even now, sixty years after the dropping of the bomb. With the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing coming tomorrow, we should look for inte ...
The Times [London] is reporting that many American couples are adjusting wedding vows to new concepts of marriage. "Til death do us part" is giving way to "for as long as our marriage shall serve the common good." There is something deeply sad about ...
On Tuesday, Susan Torres gave birth to the baby girl for whom she had hoped and prayed. Shortly thereafter, she was removed from life-support systems. Within a few short hours of her daughter's birth, Susan Torres was dead. The baby was delivered by ...
According to reproductive biologists, the dog represents a particularly difficult and complicated reproductive system. That's what makes the claim made earlier today by a group of Korean scientists all the more interesting. According to The New York ...
Judge John G. Roberts, President George W. Bush's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, responded to a series of questions posed by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In a lengthy written document, Judge Roberts answered a wide range of question ...