A world-weary Baptist businessman I know likes to say, "Nobody will screw you like a brother in Christ." Meaning that there's a special kind of cynicism employed by people who use religiosity as a cover for dastardly deeds. I know......

I read the NYTimes every day, and I notice that Thomas Friedman has been a lot less soapboxy lately, since globalization and the global economy went to hell, and the flatness of his world has made it impossible to keep......

Kenneth Minogue wants to know why in Britain (and to a lesser extent the rest of the Anglophone world), family and school life has deteriorated so extensively? Why are we seeing such a loss of discipline in schools, and a......

John Mark Reynolds comes down hard from the Right on El Rushbo. Excerpt: It was a bad speech, as a speech, and it made an argument that in our present societal context sounds like a spirited defense of the White......

On Friday, Julie had to put down the little chick suffering from pasty butt. She wasn't getting any better, and was suffering a lot. So Julie researched how to do it as painlessly as possible, then did what she had......

I actually heard my beautiful and glamorous wife, who not so long ago would be-bop along the avenues of Manhattan like some Sebergian shiksabelle, utter the following urban-agrarian lines to me tonight: "Oh, I'm so excited! I've got two trash......

John Zmirak used to work for the Legionaries of Christ, though he never joined their lay group, Regnum Christi. In an interesting column about how so many good Catholics got fooled by the Maciel cult, he makes the following observation:......

Look, our Erin Manning, the co-captain of this blog, has a MercatorNet essay up advising parents to turn off the TV. But what happens when you can't get away from the damn thing? Excerpt: But when we stopped in at......

I was struck by this comment on one of the economics threads below: Kevin F., you're right that forgiving private debt would reward some people who are rich or profligate. But a lot of people are under mountains of debt......

Reader JohnT sends along this amazing clip of interviews with Romanian hermit-monks. It's hard to watch this and remain unmoved. It's hard to watch this and be satisfied with the way you live. It is for me, anyway:......