Joe Carter

A new report from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education admits what many of us have known all along— the traditional four-year college degree is not necessarily the best path for everyone . A new report released by Harvard Wednesday states in some of the strongest terms yet that such a . . . . Continue Reading »

Kevin Kelly, an editor for Wired , recently made a bold claim on NPR : “I say there is no species of technology that have ever gone globally extinct on this planet . . . I can’t find any [invention, tool, technology] that has disappeared completely from Earth.” Nothing? I asked. . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s second On the Square column, George Weigel praises the Catholic renaissance at Texas A&M University : Where can you find a Catholic chaplaincy at an institution of higher learning that’s looking to expand its church to seat 1,400, because the current 850 just isn’t . . . . Continue Reading »

Do Catholic judges have specific moral and legal obligations because they are Catholic? Frank-Paul Sampino argues they do not : In light of the 2004 debate over whether pro-abortion politicians could receive Holy Communion, and whether ordinary Catholics could vote for such politicians in good . . . . Continue Reading »

Did you know that Ireland is not a part of the United Kingdom? It isn’t. Well, Northern Ireland is but Ireland is not—though both are part of the British Isles.* Oh, you didn’t know there were two Irelands? Then you need to watch this entertaining video which explains all that and . . . . Continue Reading »

“Prison rape occupies a fairly odd space in our culture,” wrote Ezra Klein, bringing to the fore a subject that is often ignored. “It is, all at once, a cherished source of humor, a tacitly accepted form of punishment, and a broadly understood human rights abuse.” We are justifiably outraged by the human rights abuses occurring in foreign lands. Why, then, are we not more outraged by atrocities here in our own country? … Continue Reading »

You’re probably pretty stressed right now, aren’t you? You’re not alone: Researchers say they quizzed 3,000 people about stress levels and discovered that half pin-pointed mid-morning on Tuesday as their ‘stress peak’. The majority of workers said they coast through . . . . Continue Reading »

In the October issue of First Things , twenty-two-year-old Lila Rose wrote about her crusade against Planned Parenthood . She tells how she went undercover to two Los Angeles Planned Parenthood clinics posing as a young, scared, pregnant fifteen years old, the victim of a twenty-three-year-old . . . . Continue Reading »

New research shows that the political soundbite has been shrinking for more than a century : A professor at the University of California had just published research showing that the length of the average TV sound bite had dropped dramatically, from 43 seconds in the 1968 presidential election to a . . . . Continue Reading »

By now you’ve probably heard that a federal judge ruled Obamacare is “unconstitutional” since it includes a mandate requiring citizens to purchase health insurance. But did you know the ruling includes a footnote noting that when Obama was on the campaign trail he . . . . Continue Reading »