Quoting the Times , “In a down payment on riches to come, scientists from NASA’s Kepler satellite announced Monday that they had discovered the smallest planet yet found outside our solar system and the first that was unquestionably rocky, like the Earth.” It’s the “like . . . . Continue Reading »
I was recently part of a group of Christians visiting together and passing the time with stories. One fellow told a story about how he had to get a haircut for the first time in years. He usually uses clippers and buzzes his head. But his wife asked him to let it grow and then get . . . . Continue Reading »
Drawing on The National Marriage Project’s 2010 Report, ” When Marriage Disappears: The New Middle America ,” I’ve mused a little about divorce and the larger relations between changed social mores and increased inequalities in America, suggesting that the sexual revolution . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are my thoughts, based on those of Cliff Orwin. . . . . Continue Reading »
A recently released report prepared by The National Marriage Project under the direction of W. Bradford Wilcox is full of very interesting data about sex, marriage, and family life in contemporary America, some of which we’ll be ventilating in a forthcoming issue of First Things . One . . . . Continue Reading »
I did not see it delivered, but, having read the transcript, it seems to me that President Obama’s speech at the memorial for the victims of the Tucson shooting is one of the best he has delivered. He celebrates the ordinary and homely virtues of those who died and those who were . . . . Continue Reading »
I am all for trying to prevent suicide. Apparently the comic book character Captain America is on the case in a story called “A Little Help.” From the story:Captain America’s latest foe is deadlier than the Red Skull: suicide. The character armed with his trademark . . . . Continue Reading »
The outrage in Arizona has sparked another cycle of mutual recriminations between liberals and conservatives that points up what seems to be a growing chasm running through our political culture. Each side sees itself as faithful to good old American principles, and sees the other side . . . . Continue Reading »
The opening movement of the Holocaust targeted infants with disabilities first, and then adults in the notorious T-4 program. Between 1939-1945, German doctors and other health care professionals willingly killed hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities—not because they were . . . . Continue Reading »
I have tinnitus, not a huge problem—but irritating. How would you like to be in the Tetons on a beautiful day and want to “listen” to the silence—and all you perceive is annnoying high-pitched squeal? Sometimes, it’s two toned. Sometimes my ears . . . . Continue Reading »
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