Fear & Fatal Power During the Time of Pompey
Since the days when Mark Antony’s grandfather patrolled the coasts of the Mediterranean searching for the distinctive gilded-stemmed masts of their lightweight vessels,...
Culture
A Gay in the Life of Archie Andrews
It’s getting so you can’t trust anything marketed as family-friendly entertainment these days. Disney,...
National Day of Prayer Clouded by Controversy
Today is the National Day of Prayer, a day set aside for silent reflection...
Minors and Violent Video Games
The Supreme Court has decided to hear an appeal of a Circuit Court decision...
Day of Silence Still Sparks Protest
It isn't often that parents have occasion to protest an outbreak of silence by...
Schoolgirls “Sext” Their Nude Photos
“Hard questions” are being asked this week in Montgomery County, Maryland, in the wake...
Nebraska Abortion Law Challenges Roe v. Wade
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman put his signature to an historic bill April 13 banning...
All for Naught: The Battle of Peleliu
Studs Terkel called World War II the “good war.” If any war could be...
Intergenerational Welfare, a.k.a. Social Security
Item: The New York Times for March 22 reported: “Now that landmark legislation overhauling...
Helping Hands for Soldiers
“All too often Americans say they support our soldiers, but do little if anything...
Warning: The Danger of People
In a recent article entitled “Say it loud: I’m childfree and I’m proud,” author...
John Barry: True Father of the American Navy
Who was the “brilliant child of the wind and waves” who fired the inaugural...
Catholic Church Sex Scandal & Celibacy
After getting in my car the other night, this writer turned on a radio...
Dad Ordered Not to Expose Daughter to His Faith
A father in Chicago may find himself in jail, if he exposes his young...
Warsaw and Lodz: A Tale of Two Cities
One of the 19th century’s most famous poets, Lord Byron, compressed into two lines...
Census Shows Where People Want to Live
The census is far from complete, but projections already show the historic pattern of...
Free Markets, Deregulation, and Blame
Free markets, in the full sense of the phrase, exist only in the minds...
A “Son of Hamas” Converts to Christianity
For Mosab Hassan Yousef, the problem for his fellow Palestinians is simple: “The problem...
Same-sex Couples Wed in Washington, DC
Homosexual couples began marrying March 9 in Washington, DC, nearly a week after a...
Pope Pius XII: Hero in the Unmaking
The word “hero” so often conjures up images of the brash and the bold....