Since the 1970s, 163 million girl babies have been killed by abortion because their parents have wanted sons. Jonathan Last reviews a book on the subject: Mara Hvistendahl is worried about girls. Not in any political, moral or cultural sense but as an existential
Someone asks me a few weeks ago if anyone ever disagreed with what I have written about vocation. I said, not really. I have presented on that topic to a wide variety of groups who hold to all kinds of different theologies and everyone seems
Is today’s information technology a revolutionary force or the opiate of the people? The verdict is mixed in the Middle East uprisings: Two years ago, Iranian activists used social media sites as engines to organize massive anti-government demonstrations. But now, activists say, the limitless freedoms
My wife had a meeting in Lynchburg, Virginia, last week, so I tagged along. While she was busy, I explored. I went to Appomattox Court House to see where the Civil War ended. (Did you know that Appomattox Court House is not the name of
Check out this site from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, which gives rankings and assessments of the level of “freedom” in each state in the union. According to these findings, New Hampshire (“Live free or die!”) is the state with the most freedoms,
An article on how the Navy has been sacking commanding officers for personal misconduct ends with a striking quotation: The Navy has fired a dozen commanding officers this year, a near-record rate, with the bulk getting the ax for offenses related to sex, alcohol or
The Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life women’s organization, has put forward a pledge for presidential candidates to sign by which they promise that if elected they will only appoint pro-life judges and cabinet members and will promote legislation to restrict abortion. All of the
Political scientist Steven L. Taylor explains why the government can’t just get out of the marriage business (as Ron Paul called for in the GOP presidential debate and as some of you have called for on this blog): Here’s the deal: much of the significance
Last weekend we saw X-Men: First Class, the fifth in that franchise, which gives the origin tale. I was surprised how good the thing was. It’s certainly the best of the X-Men and it has to be one of the best of the comic books
A neuroscientist describes one of the things that is so remarkable about Shakespeare’s language: The way he–along with the Elizabethan English of his time–can use words for different parts of speech: E. A. Abbott (1838-1926) was one of the great Victorian schoolmasters, who wrote, at
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