Joe Carter

Everybody knows that men want to sleep around more than women do, right? What everybody “knows” is wrong, according to a new study on gender differences in sexuality: Pedersen, Miller, Putcha-Bhagavatula, and Yang (2002) questioned that common wisdom and more closely examined the gender . . . . Continue Reading »

A few weeks ago George Weigel wrote that the Denver Bronco’s third-string quarterback Tim Tebow “draws hatred because he is an unabashed Christian, whose calmness and decency in the face of his Christophobic detractors drives them crazy.” Many sports analysts are starting to draw . . . . Continue Reading »

The Euthyphro dilemma is found in Plato’s dialogue Euthyphro , in which Socrates asks the titular character, “Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?” This type of pseudo-problem often arises in theological debates . . . . Continue Reading »

Across the nation, the growth in the percent of Muslim freshman students at Catholic colleges and universities is significantly outpacing that of enrollment at secular schools. The result, as Asma Uddin and Ashley McGuire note , is a new alliance of Catholic and Muslim women who are opting out of . . . . Continue Reading »

Vatican’s economic statement will be way to the left of Wall Street financiers National Post , Father Thomas Reese, S. J. Arguing for A Scientific Revolution In Art: Jonathon Keats Evangel , Tom Gilson Evangelicals hold sway in Iowa caucuses Los Angeles Times , Seema Mehta Seven Billion New . . . . Continue Reading »

1. Governance and Prison Gangs The Mexican Mafia is a fairly small prison gang (perhaps 150-300 made members) and it has significant operational control only within prisons in Southern California yet the Mexican Mafia is extremely powerful. In fact, the MM taxes hundreds of often larger Southern . . . . Continue Reading »

“Personally, I’ve sometimes wondered whether “compassionate conservatism” came out, in effect, to big-government conservatism,” says Timothy Dalrymple. “I no longer think that’s the case. Although Bush expanded government spending, he often directed that . . . . Continue Reading »

Is the US Declaration of Independence illegal? BBC , Matt Danzico and Kate Dailey The New Singleness Public Discourse , Maggie Gallagher The Supply-Side Economics of Abortion The New England Journal of Medicine , Theodore Joyce, Ph.D. Finding Forgiveness on Death Row Los Angeles Times , Richard A. . . . . Continue Reading »

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time when groups across the country help disseminate information about the disease. So why are so many organizations ignoring some of the biggest risk factors ? Public health authorities, however, dare not cross the cultural Rubicon with an army of . . . . Continue Reading »

No one really knows what the War of 1812 was about , but what we do know is that it involved Americans, Indians, the British, and . . . Canadians. (Really, they were involved. I looked it up on Wikipedia.) Since it was the last time Canada was involved in a war (they don’t get out much) . . . . Continue Reading »