After breaking up with his girlfriend, Wei-Li Tjong, a young New York attorney, set out to meet someone…
In the early twentieth century — during the Scopes Trial, for instance — evolution was the new theory…
PBS is about to rebroadcast its eight-hour series, “Evolution.” When the series first aired last year, I told…
A recent headline in The New York Times wins the prize for stating the obvious: “No Quick Fix…
Last week, Pim Fortuyn, a controversial Dutch politician, was assassinated as he left a radio interview. Fortuyn’s murder…
In the past month we’ve seen a series of attacks on European Jews and their institutions. In France,…
In a recent episode of the HBO series Six Feet Under, the youngest daughter, Claire, is waiting to take…
It was a glittering, thousand-dollar-a-seat Washington dinner. The occasion? — the seventieth anniversary of the Folger Shakespeare Library. But amid…
Years ago, I visited with Malcolm Muggeridge, the great curmudgeonly journalist and convert to Christianity. He was dubbed “Saint Mugg”…
Last month, Pope John Paul II summoned American cardinals to Rome. The purpose for the summit was, of course, the…