The Editors

James K. Fitzpatrick on a compromise that would have cost President Obama nothing : Obama’s accommodation proposes that Church authorities who run hospitals, schools, and other facilities will be entitled to tell their employees that the health care insurance provided by the Church does not . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel on how Easter changes everything : Christmas occupies such a large part of the Christian imagination that the absolute supremacy of Easter as the greatest of Christian feasts may get obscured at times. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, an Italian biblical scholar, suggests that we might . . . . Continue Reading »

Elizabeth Scalia on a great challenge to Christian understanding : Ecce homo : Christ enjoying ecstatic welcome as he enters Jerusalem, only to be rejected, scorned, debased, and destroyed just a week later.  Ecce all of us , for all of our triumphs contain the threat of annihilation, . . . . Continue Reading »

Dale Steinacker on Constitutional babble : The original Star Trek series, with William Shatner as Captain Kirk, would not be the first place one would look for a treatise on Constitutional law. But one episode has an interesting lesson for the Supreme Court to consider as it rules on the Patient . . . . Continue Reading »

Nathaniel Peters on the virtues of the speakeasy : If you go down St. Mark’s Place, between First and Avenue A, you’ll find a hotdog place–Crif Dogs, to be exact. If you go into Crif, you’ll see a counter at the end serving hotdogs. Two old arcade machines sit on the right. On . . . . Continue Reading »

Russell E. Saltzman on chickens coming home to roost : Ms. Hansen, a farm kid from Iowa and now a lecturer and artist in residence at the University of Kansas, had the idea to display chickens in their coops at various spots around Lawrence. She planned to recruit volunteers to tend them and at the . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel on the differences the Pill has made : As the talismanic year 2000 approached, and like virtually every other talking head and scribe in the world, I was asked what I thought the history-changing scientific discoveries of the 20th-century had been. And like the rest of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Elizabeth Scalia on utilitarian calculations and publicly funded healthcare : Here, within the neat columns of taxes, fines and policies received versus benefits paid out, hide the little demons of our spiritual destruction; they encourage the appointing of some flawed and imperfect humans to gauge . . . . Continue Reading »

Matthew Hennessey wonders why so many environmentalists are pro-choice : After all, abortion is not organic. That may sound glib, and I should maybe be better at just living in the moment and enjoying quality time with my kids, but I think it’s a useful way of looking at an issue that is . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter J. Leithart on Evangelicals and the Eucharist : I was recently asked to identify the biggest cultural challenge facing American Evangelicals. In my judgment, the biggest cultural challenge is not “out there” in “the culture” but internal–I almost said, . . . . Continue Reading »