On the international stage this week we saw on display two visions for the world and its people: a vision…
Warning: This commentary may not be suitable for younger readers. The play is not exactly the stuff of Tony awards,…
We are celebrating an anniversary this month. Our blog, The Point, turned a year old on September 18. Last year,…
Two hundred years ago, philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau advanced a theory that humans are born naturally good, but corrupted by society.…
In H. G. Wells’s novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, the survivor of a shipwreck lands on an island in…
Sometimes we would rather not face the truth. It makes us far too uncomfortable. Recently, Mark Regenerus, a sociologist and…
The day after a recent televised Republican debate, some people asked me what I thought of the candidates. Well, the…
Four months ago the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. As I said at the time,…
In the months before World War II, an Oxford don by the name of C. S. Lewis wrote, “Good philosophy…
Every time you turn around, a presidential candidate whips out his Bible—or a position paper—to let us know how faithful…